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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...Introduction - This course is the first in a series of three on Animals at the extreme. It is concerned with the integration of behaviour anatomy, physiology and biochemistry in diverse vertebrates that live in deserts. Once you have completed this course, you will be all the more able to appreciate the linked courses that follow, Animals at the extreme: hibernation and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
Languages

Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...Introduction - This course offers you around six hours of study in French at an advanced level on the topic of French crime fiction. Learning Outcomes include becoming familiar with important authors and texts in French crime fiction, being able to analyse some literary techniques used by authors, having an understanding of differences between formal written French and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...Introduction - In this course we will focus on the Anthropoidea, a suborder of primates that includes monkeys, apes and humans. We will concentrate our attention here primarily on monkeys. Colour vision, a large brain and intelligence are of great importance in the lives of anthropoids, enabling them to eat foods inaccessible to many other animals and to exploit social...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...Introduction - In this free course, Intermediate Spanish: a trip across Latin America, you will learn about the ways the people of South and Central America have dealt with the everyday conditions imposed on them by the environment they live in. You will travel from Chile to Honduras and use videos, audio recordings and articles on your virtual journey towards the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...Introduction - This free course, Intermediate German: The world of work, deals with different aspects of work. You will cover a variety of definitions of the term ‘work’, and reflect on the relevance and importance of work in our lives. You will also learn about different models of part-time work and consider if and how work will change in the future. In diesem Kurs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...Introduction - In this free course, Listening to young children: supporting transition, you will explore ways of listening to children in order to support their experiences of changes or transitions. Such transitions can involve many dimensions including familiarisation with new cultural practices, the development of new relationships, and potentially a shift in identity,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl

...management of depression: systematic review and meta-regression analysis of randomised controlled trials’, British Medical Journal (argraffiad Clinical Research ), cyf. 322, rhif. 7289, tt. 763–7...Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl: Acknowledgements - Cydnabyddiaeth Mae'r deunydd a gydnabyddir isod yn ddeunydd Perchnogol sy'n cael ei ddefnyddio o dan drwydded (sydd ddim...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...management and delay the ageing processes. Five main pillars of the Ageing Well series are nutrition, hydration, physical, social and cognitive stimulation. Today I am going to talk about nutrition. You may know already that our basic metabolic rate and functions slow down with ageing. Regular physical activity and good hydration are known to help raising the basic...
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Video 10 mins