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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...become extinct in a comparatively short geological time...Climate change and renewable energy: 2 The carbon connection - The development of life on a dynamic Earth was associated with major changes in the composition of oceans and atmospheres, and carbon-based life played a key role in this. The section above discussed how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have a major...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...becoming the managers or stewards of our environment – whether we like it or not. Your opinions may well differ from those expressed in the last paragraph. Since you have chosen to study this course about the environment, I would not be surprised if you already have quite strong views about some of the environmental issues we face. Exercise 1 What are the most pressing...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...become a style with which the Academy was both familiar and comfortable. Click to see Plate 5: Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons...Delacroix: 2.6 An alternative deathbed tradition - Delacroix does not draw on this neoclassical tradition. He uses an alternative deathbed tradition, in which the bed is artificially raised and tilted...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...becomes adenosine diphosphate or ADP. The energy released from this ATP catabolism can be used to power the energy-requiring processes in the body. So, using the money analogy, ATP is synthesized (or earned like money) and then catabolized (spent) where necessary. There is a difference in the analogy here in that the body is very efficient in how it uses ATP and wastes as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...Become familiar with the data: read the transcripts, survey responses or other data collected several times. Generate codes: highlight in the text where the same issue is being raised by different respondents by using a different code (colour, letter, number) for each separate issue. Generate themes: consider the codes identified above and identify the higher-level...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...become a party to treaties, the rules of IHL must be respected by all parties to an armed conflict, irrespective of whether they are a state or non-state entity (e.g. a group of guerrilla fighters). However, the application of the correct legal framework depends primarily on the type of armed conflict. IHL distinguishes between two main types of conflict: international...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...student a bewildering multitude of pilot-phrases so thoroughly and perfectly that he could talk them off in book and play or conversation and make no mistake that a pilot would not immediately discover. It was a triumph for me. He was silent awhile, and I knew what was happening--he was losing his temper. And I knew he would presently close the session with the same old...
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Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...become objects of study in the social and psychological sciences’. He gives three specific instances of this. First, ‘increased historical and anthropological awareness of the great variety of forms these human attitudes may take at different times and in different cultures’. If some cultures can do without blame and resentment, it would make us wonder whether such...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs