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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the characteristics of ‘engineering’ and the role engineers have played in shaping engineering up to the present and into the future understand a range of principles in science, mathematics and engineering in order to make well-founded decisions as part of a design process have an...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the bold terms provide examples that show there is a continuum of desert climates and environments that link to diversity of flora and fauna explain, with examples, the thermoregulatory strategies of evaders, evaporators and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand ways in which data may be stored and processed distinguish between different forms of data, and use notations introduced in the course to show different forms of data appreciate that fine details may be important when interpreting formal notation (for example, different types of brackets may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...Learning outcomes - After studying the material in this course, you should be able to: outline the energy and environmental impacts of transport activities and their importance, and understand that behavioural changes have an important role in achieving transport sustainability carry out simple calculations on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and running costs and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...learned journals (with 100+ co-authors), 3 books and many minor publications. He specialises in the economics of energy, environment, and climate, and is interested in integrated assessment modelling. He is an editor for Energy Economics, and an associate editor of economics the e-journal. He is advisor and referee of national and international policy and research. He is...
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Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...Learning outcomes - Ma chuireas tu crìoch air an aonad seo bu chòir gum biodh tu fiosrachail agus eòlach a thaobh: an t-àite a tha aig a’ Ghàidhlig ri taobh Albais agus Beurla mar aon de chànain nàiseanta na h-Alba bun-tùsan na Gàidhlig mar chànan Ceilteach le dlùth chàirdeas ri Gàidhlig na h-Èireann agus Gàidhlig Eilean Mhanainn agus sgapadh nan...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...learning – or being persuaded – to enjoy a drink they had long shunned. Josef Groll made the first batch of Pilsner, the light, golden beer we know as lager, in the Czech town of Pilsen in 1842. Word spread and, thanks to Europe’s developing train network, so did the drink. Soon brewers from Germany started to make their own Pils, and ‘Pilsner’ no longer meant...
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Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the bold terms give definitions of the terms ‘hibernation’, ‘torpor’ and ‘adaptive hypothermia’, and the three physiological processes that underlie them give examples of the diversity of the major groups of mammals and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs