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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...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 invite you to think critically about the political: to examine and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen began to lay the framework for the recognition of rights such as the freedom of speech and assembly. In these documents the development of modern human international law can be seen. Whilst such documents differed in their detailed content, certain general principles underpinned them: Every human being has certain rights, which they...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...de Bondt, 1998). Even within the field of financial economics, there is increasing interest in developing theories of market behaviour which take better account of how people really make decisions (e.g. see Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...de Bernie`res. Tim Pears My first book was written from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl, and I never felt when I was writing it that I had to make some kind of special effort, you know, to get into the mind of a female, or a young person, whatever. I think I just thought how I would think about things, and with a little bit of sympathy, empathy towards somebody...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...de Zeeuw [A face comprising a merger of a photo of a woman and a cartoon of a man] The interview Pirate practices often involve theft and property violations without clearcut ideological motives, as is the case with most torrent trackers. For this reason they are often dubbed apolitical, in a pejorative, delegitimizing sense, namely as ‘merely’ criminal, directed...
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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...de Waal, combines family history to create a fascinating biography of a collection of netsuke. De Waal, E. (2010) The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, London, Vintage. Okada, B.T. (1980) 'Netsuke: the small sculptures of Japan', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 2–48 [Online]. Available at http://www.jstor.org/ stable/...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...um, you talk about someone being ‘in the opposite side of the sidewalk’ en la acera de enfrente, and combinations of these like, for example, loca is quite a well-known expression to refer to a, to a gay man. Um, you can also have variants like musculoca, which is basically a ‘muscle Mary’, as you would say it in English. Interviewer: Well, it’s interesting because it looks like all these groups that have their own code ......
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...de Waal presents and discusses examples of collaboration and co-operation between animals (including in problem-solving). He frames the need for co-operation as part of the basis of morality. His discussion includes some early work with chimpanzees, which led to the ‘cooperating elephants’ study that you learned about in Section 5.2 of this course, as well as footage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs