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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...
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
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...
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...religion is, or if you have children, join the PTA. Join a sports team. I think the message here is get involved. Teams are ultimately groups of people who come together with a common cause to get things done. And they can come from any walk or aspect of your life. So my recommendation will be if you feel that these aren't skills you currently have, get out there and have...
Level 1: Introductory 24 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
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...religion, manuscripts, books, and other objects of artistic, historical, or archaeological value, as well as scientific connections and important collections of archives. Video 2 In the next section, you will learn more about the specific rules set out in the 1954 Hague Convention...Week 2: Cultural heritage in war: 3.1 Applying Hague Convention Guidelines - The animation...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...religions: the Mona Lisa was the mother of Helen of Troy and the Virgin Mary. The wisdom and knowledge she has acquired is worn lightly, nothing more than ‘the sound of lyres and flutes’, apparent only in the ‘delicacy’ of colour on ‘eyelids and hands’. The aim of the preceding exercise was to encourage you to think about form and structure even when a poem...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs