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Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...work for companies that have business links with Chinese-speaking countries. Or perhaps you are simply fascinated by the sound, the script and its ancient civilisation. There are so many reasons for learning Chinese, so many motivations and rewards, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. This course offers you an excellent start to achieving a basic...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...works, newspapers and the media. However, there is often little attention given to what the term actually means. Kathleen Braden and Fred Shelley define geopolitics as ‘the study of International Relations from a geographical perspective’ (2000, p. 5). From this more disciplinary perspective, space and place remain of primary importance in international relations, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...work out exactly how far away the object reflecting the sound is. This is the principle of radar which is used to map and track the locations of aircraft in the sky and ships on the sea, in this case using electromagnetic waves. It is also the same principle used by ships that send a sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging) pulse of sound into the ocean and ‘listen’ to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...work, whether in Malaysia and the UK, is an interest in clashing identities. So that’s quite personal for me, being gay and Muslim, but I’m also interested in other clashes. I’m in a civil partnership with an openly gay Anglican priest who has had to negotiate those clashes as well, as a gay man who’s also an ordained Christian minister. It was a huge aha moment...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...work. He used one of the first telescopes to discover the four largest of Jupiter's satellites and the phases of Venus. His consequent support for the theory that the Earth moves around the Sun led to his imprisonment for heresy in 1633. All the giant planets have satellites. Jupiter's four largest satellites were discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (Figure 1), using...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...worked with numbers. Numbers can be difficult to use in context: we can say them in a sequence (e.g. from 1 to 10, from 10 to 100), but when we need to tell or understand the time in a foreign language we suddenly find out that we are processing the information slower than in our language. This is because numbers are a language themselves, therefore you are dealing with...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...work from the top-down. Orientation ‘Orient’ is associated with the rising of the sun in the east and, in earlier times, many maps were drawn with east at the top. The convention of ‘north at the top’ is a northern hemisphere notion (compare with map 6 – click on 'view document' below) which possibly derives from the importance of the North (Pole) Star to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol

...work trends post covid-19’ (Turner a Baker, 2022) yn adnabod tueddiadau sydd â'r effaith fwyaf ar brofiad cyflogeion fel: Gweithio hybrid yn dod yn brif ffordd o weithio Prinder doniau allweddol Llesiant yn fesurydd allweddol Gallai canlyniadau amrywiaeth, ecwiti a chynhwysiant waethygu Bydd trosiant yn cynyddu Rolau rheolwyr yn newid Mae'r Genhedlaeth Z eisiau...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs