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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...work in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. We hope to fix this problem soon...Advanced Spanish: Language in context: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define a living language and explain the features that make it qualify as such identify the types of knowledge required in order to understand a language’s regional varieties evaluate...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...social workers and lawyers have tried to get a test carried out on an adult without the permission of the person concerned. There can also be strong pressure on individuals who, although they are aware they are undergoing testing, might not be exercising their own best judgement. An example is the family pressure that can force prospective parents to be tested so that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...working on a wide variety of biological problems, as the rest of the world struggled to come to terms with the implications of evolution. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The word 'evolution' means 'change over time' and it can be used in relation to anything that has a history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of parliamentary...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...social issues appropriate to the development of alternatives to oil products demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the impact of the use of oil on the future of our planet express and rewrite concepts in an objective and factually correct way make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical or graphical material...Living without...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...work' is a knowledge of the subcellular components and how they are arranged. This is introduced through a series of in-text and self-assessment questions...This free course, A tour of the cell, contains a blend of text and a multimedia interactive component to look at the uniformity and diversity within cells. Fundamental to understanding how cells 'work' is a knowledge...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...work out how to say ‘Good day’ in Ukrainian? NATALIA: Dobryi den! MERI: Dobryi den! NATALIA: Ya Natalia, a vy? MERI: Ya Meri. NATALIA: Duzhe pryiemno! MERI: Meni tezh. Audio 2 Audio 2 transcript UKRAINIAN TRANSLITERATION Наталя–Добрий день! Natalia– Dobryi den! Мері–Добрий день! Meri–Dobryi den! Наталя–Я Наталя, а...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...social and political; but we could be several times rottener than we administratively are, and still be incalculably reasonabler, as republicans, than those well-governed monarchists. Some of us are apt to forget the immense advantage which we have of the monarchical peoples in having cast away the very name of King, for with the name goes the nature of royalty and all...
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Article 5 mins
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...work our way through the examples, and fill up each of them: there is a kind of symmetry going on...The moral equality of combatants: 2 More on Walzer’s theory of self-defence - Walzer’s key point is that soldiers are ‘dangerous men’. On his line of argument, equal liability comes from equality of threat; what it is that makes it permissible for me to kill you is...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs