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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...climate change presented in the media. No longer will you be put off by averages or percentages, and you'll even learn to love negative numbers. You will understand and manage numbers like a scientist. The course will introduce all the main skills you'll need to understand and communicate scientific numbers, relate them to the real world, and share your discoveries with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...climate change and human rights. IR explores topics like war, peace, trade, the environment and migration, making it a broad and dynamic field. Contemporary issues, like those seen in the daily news, frequently reshape the discipline of IR, demonstrating the importance of understanding these global interactions. IR also directly impacts everyday life. For example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...climate change and war, are constructed in political debates (e.g. De Castella and McGarty, 2011; Every and Augoustinos, 2007; Kurz, Augoustinos, and Crabb, 2010; Tileagă, 2009), and also how these issues are understood by ‘lay’ people in everyday life (e.g. Figgou and Condor, 2007; Gibson and Hamilton, 2011; Andreouli, Greenland and Howarth, 2016). These approaches...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...climate change. Our views and our background (our culture) condition the way we see nature or landscape and our attitude towards them. For me, one of the most interesting aspects of this changing view of landscape is the way that in the West Highlands the taste for 'natural' landscapes developed alongside social and economic processes that saw people cleared from their...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...change it in ways we don't yet fully understand. The course will end by introducing the concept of ‘ecological health’, the idea that our growing exploitation of the resources of ecosystems is endangering their ability to support themselves … and us. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Introducing the environment:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...climate change, or dealing with mental health in the community). Then it may be hard to define what the problem is (if there are several strands of interlinked problems) or how to tackle it. Teams may have to handle: the complexity of the problems addressed in providing public services, and how far to go in trying to solve problems with unclear limits the public may have...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...climate. So, as our climate changes, it becomes more and more important for us to understand both the balance and cycle of carbon. And that will help us to understand what will happen in the future. Life on earth is carbon based. A key feature of ecosystems is the passage of carbon through the system as part of the carbon cycle. Solar energy is captured in the leaves of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Concepts and theories in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Concepts and theories in international relations

...climate change is developing due to the actions of a powerful few rather than humanity as a whole. A key principle of ecofeminism is that patriarchal societies value masculine attributes over feminine ones. This starts with patriarchy, in which men dominate and women are subordinated. However, for ecofeminists, gender dualism stretch into all elements of society. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs