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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...study. Sub-Saharan Africa also has many different ecological areas that experience different rates of rainfall and have soils that vary in acidity or salinisation or sodification, where free sodium abounds, often causing soil structure deterioration. Zambia, for example, has three agroecological zones, distinguished by rainfall and growing season. Soil microbiologist...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...studying to compose elegant sermons, which flatter the ear yet reap very little fruit. Their hearers applaud their parts, but very few are converted." On Saint Patrick's significance and influence "Most preachers, now-a-days, have learning, but are not sufficiently grounded in true sanctity, and a spirit of devotion. Interior humility, purity of heart, recollection, and...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...studies in the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to attend, not only to what people said about race but… to what people could not say about race, it was the silences that told us something; it was what wasn’t there, it was what was invisible, what couldn’t be put into the frame, what was apparently...
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...Studies (COSAS) in 1980 and joined the fights against Apartheid. In 1983 he joined the Gay and Lesbian Association of South Africa (GASA) in an attempt to join up both sides of his activism. However, it was a predominantly white organisation and he found that GASA was firmly ‘apolitical’, disagreed with his anti-Apartheid work and would not support him on issues...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...skill of the British poet and playwright...Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels; in finding clay, and making bricks and building the house, no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men....
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...studying this course, you should be able to: provide definitions of environment, management, systems and organisations in relation to environmental management describe organisations as systems and their role in environmental management understand the usefulness of systems thinking in relation to environmental management in organisations explain how environmental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the history of Mars and the role of its environment on the presence of water over time describe the methods used to find water on Mars, including the techniques employed by robotic and orbiting spacecraft evaluate the evidence for water on Mars describe the different settings in which water has been in Mars’ past...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...study such as deep ecology, transpersonal psychology, indigenous traditions, wilderness studies and philosophy, to name some. A central tenet of ecopsychology is the exploration of the reciprocal human–nature relationship and in particular the human mind as it relates to nature. Rust (2020) describes it as ‘the study (logos) of the soul (psyche) in its natural home...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs