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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...changed over time. But definitions of race have great consequence: these definitions continue to shape the experiences of people in the past and the present, and in different geographical, social, economic, political and legal contexts...Course introduction: 2.2 How was the concept of ‘race’ invented? - Prior to the 1600s, the term ‘race’ was used infrequently in...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...changed and discusses how to write in an accessible way. Don’t worry if you do not fully understand everything in this audio, you will return to it at the end of this section and revisit some of the concepts that Vicki talks about. Make some notes on the questions that follow: VICKY My name’s Vicky. I’ve been a qualified social worker for six years. I’ve recently...
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...change is summed up by the Schubert scholar, Maurice Brown: Secular music was no longer the product and solace of the aristocratic patron; the prince and priest of the eighteenth century, whose establishments contained bands of musical servants hired to perform chamber and orchestral music, with a composer-servant at their head to provide that music – they were passing....
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...change in state forms because the state clearly isn't a static entity or set of institutions. And those interests between those different forms of power have really coalesced substantively around corporate crime and harm. So then ,in particular, how corporate crimes and harms take effect how they are and how they might be regulated, and how those regulations might be...
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...change of temperature (or pressure) may result in a phase transformation; for example, liquid H2O (water) can be heated to form a gas (steam), or cooled to form a solid (ice). [Described image] Figure 4 A phase diagram for the three phases of H2O, showing their stability fields over a range of pressures, measured in MPa, and temperatures, measured in °C. (The SI unit of...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...changed’ – to the point perhaps where a piece of work or its application is discouraged or prevented – what is the point of discussion of this type? So who gains from dialogue? Perhaps there is an underlying moral imperative for scientists to commit to the notion of dialogue. Sir Aaron Klug, President of the Royal Society, in 2000, puts forward just such a point of...
Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...changing moment for many people. For some, they will have known for a long time that this was the career they wished to follow. For others, it may be a rather more dramatic change of direction. What may not be apparent at that early stage, is the challenge of choosing a route into teaching from the plethora of courses and qualifications available or differences in opinion...
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...changing your lip position.) the sound ou, as in ‘vous’, ‘tout’, ‘bonjour’, is pronounced with the same lip position, but with the middle part of your tongue raised at the back of your mouth. It’s a bit like the sound ‘oo’ as in ‘zoo’ in English. Try saying them one after the other and note the changing position of your tongue. Activity 8 Now listen...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs