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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...religions, like Islam or Christianity (in which a god creates the world). Or you might have included scientific stories like the Big Bang. If you have a special interest in cosmology stories and the way they vary among different groups of people you may have thought of the stories about how Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva create the world, from the coils of the great snake...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...religion in nineteenth-century Wales. This extract is from Programme 8, Crisis, of the BBC Radio Wales Millennium History series, The People of Wales (1999). Audio 11 (duration 0:49)...Welsh history and its sources: 3.8.1 Public houses - Neil Evans describes the function of pubs in Wales in the nineteenth century. This extract is from Programme 9, From blue books to white...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...religion, economic status, ethnicity and disability. And we also know that girls' limited access to education is underpinned by pervasive gender inequality. This research gives us a unique opportunity to match the program to the girls' needs. We need to know about these particular girls, and one way that we can do this is to involve girls in the research process. For this...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...religions hold beliefs that mean they do not recognise mental health issues as an illness. Instead, the causes of behaviours in children that are outside the norm are sometimes attributed to other explanatory models, a contentious example being that a child is possessed by evil spirits. Now listen to the following audio in which Liz Middleton, one of the course authors,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...Religion, I was on, I think these tables, we were talking about religion a little bit. I was born Catholic, but then my mom’s Muslim, my brother’s Muslim. And I believe in a lot of things. With these kinds of conversations, it takes a level of vulnerability for the staff engaged in these kinds of conversations. Because you put yourselves at the scrutiny of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...religion she said, truth is like surgery, it hurts but it cures. Skirting around truth is like a paracetamol tablet, it gives temporary relief but doesn’t get to the root cause of the issue. Encouragement is one of the key tools in your toolkit. Encouragement and feedback, our sixth building block is characterized by the phrase, effective balance. It is a balance...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...Religion as a motivation for terror] In recent times, terrorist attacks are often associated with religious fundamentalism. The 1990s saw a series of events in which radical religious zealots used terrorism, often indiscriminately, against civilians, aiming to inflict as many casualties as possible. Examples of what’s been called ‘new terrorism’ include the bombing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Religion in England, 1660–1760, Aldershot, Ashgate. Hemingway, A. and Vaughan, W. (eds) (1998) Art in Bourgeois Society 1790–1850, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Hills, H. (ed.) (2011) Rethinking the Baroque, Farnham, Ashgate. Honour, H. (1968) Neo-classicism, Harmondsworth, Penguin. Honour, H. (1979) Romanticism, Harmondsworth, Penguin. Hyde, M. (2006) Making...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs