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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...concept of immortality in general. And I also think I’m taking a more critical or an evaluative approach. I want to understand whether we should want immortality and whether the concept even makes sense. SUZANNE As a religious studies scholar, my most fundamental questions are usually about exploring libs contexts rather than starting with the abstract generalities. I...
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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...concepts such as institutional racism are not to ‘blame the innocent’, but to improve our understanding of the ways policies, practices, and processes perpetuate racial inequality such that they can be identified and ‘dismantled’ (Clair and Denis, 2015). Simultaneously, a narrow focus on institutional racism can obscure or absolve individual actions and actors’...
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English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...conception of what it is: how would you sum it up in a few sentences? Comment You may well have started your definition by saying that English is the language spoken in England. This is how Dr Johnson defined it in his dictionary of the English language, composed back in the mid-eighteenth century: ENGLISH. adj. Belonging to England; thence English is the language of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...concepts in ways that may challenge your current understanding of them. One of the assumptions on this course is that language and learning are inextricably intertwined. It is hard to imagine learning happening without some sort of language mediating it; and it is almost as hard to imagine language being used without some sort – however small – of learning taking...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...concept of entanglement as a tool for exploring these interrelated factors. Using the ideas of the environmental historian Stephen Pyne, the course establishes that wildfires are entangled physical, ecological, and human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental challenge of wildfires in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...concepts) associated with different words, so that confusions can be avoided. Sometimes they will even introduce new words (technical terms, as they are called) in order represent ideas and distinctions for which we have no everyday words. This concern with the clarification of ideas is central to philosophy, and it has applications in many areas. For example, politicians...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...concept of a ‘modern’ society. The view of development as modernisation emerged clearly in the 1950s and 1960s, although its origins can be traced back much further. Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the economic, social, cultural and political systems of countries in Western Europe and North America were transformed and, in the post Second World War...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...concepts. An understanding of ‘emotional resilience’ and ‘professional leadership’ will help to guide you through taking a positive approach to problems that arise in social work practice. You will also be introduced to some ideas about leadership in social work practice...What does it take to become a resilient practitioner in social work? This free course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs