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Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...perceptions, as psychiatric diagnosis. However, the way it goes about investigating these issues can be quite different. You’ll find out more about this in the next section...Making sense of mental health problems: 3.2 A psychologist’s perspective - In the activities that follow, you will be encouraged to read about psychological formulation and will also be asked to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...perceptions of need for action and a wish to work effectively with others to improve a situation. Increased globalisation and the development of information and communications technologies are among the factors that have extended the notion of community well beyond geographical areas. Global connectivity has seen the burgeoning of online communities with wide geographical...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...perception - Particular perspectives and points of view underpin speaking and writing. Being successful at many academic tasks, including balanced argument, often requires us to be conscious of and to try to break away from our usual perspectives and ways of thinking, and to attend to things we might not normally notice. The challenge is often to be more open-minded and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...perceptions of law. You will also be asked to think about the views of others. An appreciation of the views of others is essential to understanding how the role of law within society is perceived. The role and place of law is often miscommunicated in the media and this also has an impact on perception. [A montage of eight photographic images through which ideas about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...perception of the natural world and what’s going on there, and I have good days and bad days. Some days I think we are driving very fast in a gas-guzzling car, very fast towards something that we know is a cliff and somehow we think that maybe we will have died by the time it happens or we can somehow blame someone else or if I just don’t think about it, it might not...
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Video 40 mins
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...perceptions of pain and temperature: theory, applications and safety considerations’, Sports Medicine, 48(3), pp. 524–537. Tiller, N. (2018) ‘I ran 100 miles in a day – this is what happened to my body’, The Conversation, 24 September. Available at: https://theconversation.com/i-ran-100-miles-in-a-day-this-is-what-happened-to-my-body-101640 (Accessed: 13 March...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...perception the veil is associated more with Arab women and Islam. In Arabic (the spoken and written language of two hundred and fifty million people and the religious language of one and a half billion people today) ‘veil’ has no single equivalent. Numerous Arabic terms are used to refer to diverse articles of women’s clothing that vary by body part, region, local...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...perception (while introducing characteristics of its own in respect of various different types of lenses, etc). This system of representation was definitively realised in fifteenth-century Italy and elaborated in European academies of art over the next four hundred years. It found its antecedents in the classical civilisations of Greece and Rome from the fifth century BC...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs