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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...division between the so-called arts of design and crafts, and not least the relegation of goldsmiths to the realm of craft...Art and visual culture: Medieval to modern: Medieval and Renaissance visual culture - The term ‘visual culture’ is also used for a second reason that is less to do with definition than with method. Including the various arts under the umbrella...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...division is found between firms which cater for stable markets and those in unstable markets. Firms with stable product demand create primary conditions of employment, including, notably, job security. Firms which face unstable demand operate in the secondary segment of the labour market. The contours of segmentation, defined according to stability, fluctuate depending on...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...divisions in your area Timing: 15 minutes Note down your thoughts on the following questions about your area. Are there any barriers or boundaries between your and other communities in your local area? These don’t need to be physical, they could be streets you don’t walk down, shops you don’t go into for example? How does it make you feel when you are in another...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...division to calculate a percentage from Table 3.4, the quantities in the numerator and in the denominator were calculated from Table 3.1 by dividing by the same population total. So the population total cancels out and the result of the division is identical to that obtained from Table 3.1. One appropriate kind of graph that would draw particular attention to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...divisions in their lives. This can homogenise them and reinforce stereotypes. We saw from our personal stories that there are huge differences in people's experiences, and in the meanings of those experiences. Moreover, although personal lives reflect the bigger societal picture of power, inequality and difference, there is always an ‘excess’. That is, individuals can...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...division running from the front to the back of the brain. These two hemispheres are joined together by a bundle of approximately 200 million nerve cells that pass messages between the two hemispheres. This connecting bundle of cells is called the corpus callosum. [Figure 2] Figure 2 Looking down on the brain Although these two hemispheres look the same, so they have a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...divisions and racial discrimination. Race continues to affect people’s experiences and personal identities today. This free course, What can philosophy tell us about race?, will introduce you to debates about the fundamental nature of race and racism, and encourage you to explore the ways in which philosophy matters for understanding the world around us...Categorising...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...division. The stillness was absolute. But what worried me was the men bending over the red brands of some small wood fires. They were dressed in greenish dust color: it seemed to me they should have been in blue. And it gave my mind an extraordinary wrench to come back to the realisation that I was where and when I was, instead of being upon the Potomac half a century...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs