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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...work is an example of our global world. Economic migration (that is, moving to another place to find work) is now fairly common. For example, the expansion of the European Union (EU) to include Eastern European countries in 2004 led to a rise in economic migration within Europe. Many places in Scotland now have well-established and dynamic Eastern European — in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...work of Moffitt et al. published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2007, and that 'the reverse pattern seems to be frequently present', 'the combination of generalized anxiety disorder and major depression might represent an additional burden' and 'social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is now also regarded as an important and consistent risk factor for the...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...works with its lyrics to create meaning...This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...work out the mix of stars that make up the galaxy, astronomers can measure the Doppler shifts of these spectral lines and so work out the motions within the galaxy as well as the speed of the galaxy through space. In the case of active galaxies, the spectrum shows features in addition to those of normal galaxies, and it is from these features that the active nucleus of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...working through a calculation by hand this is shown by crossing through the numbers that cancel each other out, like this: four times 00 divided by one postfix times 000 postfix times zero times 00 Conventionally, fractions are written in their simplest form. In this case, you can simplify further because both top and bottom are divisible by 4 so this fraction can also be...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...works over time: we assume the notional value of a portion of fish and chips, for example, to be fixed over time, and then consider how much people paid for it at a particular time using the currency of the time. We can then convert between a price of £X (1980 pounds) per portion of fish chips in 1980 and £Y (2015 pounds) per portion of fish and chips in 2015 using a...
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Video 45 mins
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...working to understand the relationship between crowds and collective identity. Modern crowd research is considered to have started with French polymath and political conservative Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: Study of the Popular Mind (1895). Le Bon problematised what we today would see as part of the popular democratic process; he views the crowd not so much as mindless...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...work. Often we afford them only a passing glance. Most of us also make them ourselves: pictures of our family, loved ones, friends, events, interests. Few of us, however, look closely and carefully at photographs as visual evidence, yet they often illustrate and support our ideas about society. It follows, then, that in order to be effective as social scientists, we need...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs