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Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...changing environments. In the term ‘eco crime’, we see these meanings combined with those of ‘crime’, which originates from crimen (to accuse, injure, harm –Pavlich, 2000), to create a term which describes the injuries or harms to habitat (Walters, 2010a). Key features of Green Criminology Focuses on eco crimes – harms to humans, non-humans and the natural...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...changed since the last time you noticed them – maybe the wall colour has faded. Some things will not be quite as you thought they were – maybe you didn't remember the door handle being made of metal. It is useful to do this sort of perceptual exercise at regular intervals. In this way you will revive the way you see the world – by de-familiarising your perceptions...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...change seems to align to some extent with the update to the DSM − although DSM-5 does not include a diagnostic category for MADD, 'the specifier "with anxious distress" has been added to depressive and bipolar disorders, and thus patients presenting with co-morbid, subsyndromal, equally important anxiety and depressive symptoms may be coded to be suffering from "Other...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...change to scientific notation, you have to move it 2 places to the left, and this gives 10 to the power +2, and hence 2.15 × 102. Similarly for (c) 152. × 103 (writing in the decimal point). It has to move 2 places to the left to be behind the first non-zero digit, the 2, and so the power of 10 increases by 2 to give 1.52 × 105. In (d) you have to move the decimal...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...change the group rules? You can have a discussion in the group about it, but you should lead it. If you end up going down the rabbit hole of people saying, why did you delete my post? And then you try and explain it and then say, ah, but you’re not allowing free speech. And you know, it can just get a bit unpleasant. So I’d have that as a policy. I wouldn’t be too...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...changes the speed of a reaction. Those who work with young people often need to act at the interface between the young person and the opportunities that are available for their personal and social development. In simpler terms, we can say that the worker as catalyst ‘makes things happen’, providing stimulus, challenges and opportunities. Issues: Acting as a catalyst...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...change. We can then assess how far the 19th-century studio tradition continues to influence the snapshots we take today. We shall return to this question throughout the course. But before we start to analyse the studio tradition in detail, let's consider the nature of the photograph as a source of evidence in historical research...Picturing the family: 2.2 Photographs as...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...change that a single book may make to an inexperienced reader), and there is a perfectly natural urge to revisit them. But if we look a little more closely, problems arise. It might be that the books read as a child were actually an escape, and that it is the escape, not the childhood, that the reader wishes to relive: far from being a happy, lost state, many (perhaps...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs