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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...de l’Egypte, initially in ten volumes accompanied by 900 engraved illustrations, between 1809 and 1828. These brought a comprehensive and accurate visual survey of Egyptian temples, tombs and their sculpted and painted decorations before the European public for the first time. A second key development was the Egyptian hieroglyphic script being deciphered by the French...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary

...például a Dobos tortát és a Rákóczi túróst, mind kevésbé ismert, de hasonlóan ízletes társaikat. Kint az utcán sok helyen fogyaszthatunk a hagyományos és laktató lángosból vagy akár a nagyon édes és ropogós, Erdélyből származó kürtőskalácsból. A kenyeret általában frissen veszik az emberek minden nap, munkából hazafelé; sajtos, krumplis és tepertős pogácsát pedig még mindig gyakran otthon sütnek. Hungarian Az egyik kedvenc......
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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...concepts, evidence and theories taking a distanced, critical stance towards subject matter, assumptions and explanations tackling issues systematically, logically, and effectively examining the adequacy of evidence and checking alternative interpretations of it demonstrating a thorough understanding of complex, abstract concepts within the discipline writing clearly and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...concept. As you work through the course, you will notice that this area of enquiry has developed its own semi-technical vocabulary. The plural of ‘person’ is, in this area of enquiry, ‘persons’ rather than ‘people’. It is easy to see the reason for this. The question ‘What are people?’ is potentially confusing. It could mean ‘What is it to be a people...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...conceptions of 'justice' and the distinction between equity and equality...This free course, Exploring equality and equity in education, considers the complexity of social justice as applied to education and reflects on the different purposes of, and value ascribed to, education in different countries and cultures. It discusses different conceptions of 'justice' and the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...concept of the person points to something that is relevant in the specific context of the wrongness of killing. Nigel: See to me, the issue of animals is whether they suffer or not. All kinds of animals are capable of suffering even if they don’t have conception of their life continuing. Peter: I totally agree – you brought up the topic of persons not me. I think the...
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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...concepts and methods sufficient or do we need to reconsider the ways we ‘do’ social psychology? The notion of emergence is useful here. We can no longer claim to study how things are, but we need to pay closer attention to the ways that things come into being, for example, new identities, new groupings, new activisms, new ideological and cultural formations. Our final...
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What are the rules around assisted suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are the rules around assisted suicide?

...concept with two people discussing topic] As you saw in How to Die: Simon’s Choice assisted suicide is illegal in the UK. Anyone who participates in active voluntary euthanasia will be prosecuted under criminal law, although challenges to the present position and to the law regarding assisted suicide are common. In the programme, Simon’s consultant says that very few...
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