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Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...religion or sexuality liberty – to interact in society is reflected in the right to vote or assemble in groups equality – speaks to second-generation rights, such as the right to education or the right to work brotherhood – relates to community and solidarity. Ishay, 2004, p. 359 Though these have been long-standing pillars, it does not mean that there is absolute...
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...religion and far-reaching historical links. It opened up perspectives on a broader Europe of a less well-defined character, but at least one that was unconstrained by structures of superpower control. The independence of the reconstructed eastern Europe and the severing of Russian links throughout the area was confirmed with the dissolution of the Soviet Union a couple of...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...religion as a tool used by the powerful ‘to keep men in awe’ and said ‘Christ was a bastard and his mother dishonest’ (ibid., p. 37). Baines also accused Marlowe of what we would call homosexuality (the word did not exist in the sixteenth century, though buggery was punishable by death) when he attributed to him the view that ‘all they that love not tobacco and...
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...religion, profession. Know about your character’s inner life: what s/he wants, thinks, remembers, resents, fears, dreams, denies. Know about your character’s behaviour, what s/he wears, buys, eats, says, works at and plays at. Know how your character speaks and how this changes according to context, mood and intention. See and describe your character vividly, how s/he...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...religion, then can anything be more important than communicating connection, pattern, and the value of life for its own sake? Woolf herself went through periods of profound depression after she finished each novel and as we saw at the start of this course, this one was written for the most part while war raged. ‘The pressure of this battle wipes London out pretty...
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...religion driven, grief driven, fun driven, or political (Fichman & Sanfilippo, 2016). However, as Coles and West (2016) argued, beyond the broadness of the term ‘troll’ and the many subtypes, it is important to look at the term as having variable meanings, intentions, and varied sub-types between different platforms and the course of interaction. iv.Behavioural...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...religion or income. The findings of the Understanding Society project’s first survey of participation in the UK were published in 2011. Extract 1 provides a summary of some of those findings. You will notice that each of the findings links a form of participation or consumption (e.g. neighbourhood participation) to a particular group or category of people who responded...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...religion or belief sexual orientation. It applies in England, Scotland and Wales. Under the legislation, all the public bodies were expected to publish their equality information by 30 March 2022. In Wales, annual reports for 2021 to 2022 were expected by 31 March 2023. In Scotland, most listed authorities started their reporting in 2013 and are expected to publish their...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs