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Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...concept of ‘career’ as a job for life is irrelevant to the twenty-first century labour market. Click below to read a careers overview, which explores this further. (Note: the QCA booklet 'Informing choices' mentioned in the instructions at the end of this overview is no longer available online) View document: Careers overview A more useful concept of career is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...concepts box and banana. Moreover, those with certain religious beliefs may very well want to point out that admitting non-human animals into the club of thinkers is not perforce to admit that they have souls. Only humans have souls. But what is it about us, that mere animals lack, in virtue of which we have souls and they do not? Some might say our possession of free...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...concepts; for example Cicero, Italy, field, happiness. Most nouns can be singular or plural; for example field, fields. In Latin, nouns are usually subject to inflections: their endings change. This is sometimes so in English, too, as you saw in Section 4.1 with woman, women, woman’s, and women’s. Activity 5 Identify the nouns in this passage from Beatrix Potter’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...concepts – colonisation, colonialism and coloniality. You learnt that although related, each of them describes a different set of processes. In reflecting on colonial histories, you have been introduced to the formative role of binaries like ‘civilised’ versus ‘primitive’ and ‘us’ versus ’them’ in justifying colonising and civilising missions imposed on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...concept of the digital computer as an interpreted automatic formal system and consider the implications of this for computational theories of mind. At the end, I'll try to draw some conclusions and set the scene for the course ahead. Some of the material in the course is historical, some technical – all of it is relevant to the theme of this course: humanity's quest to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...concept of marketing, how to assess if your organisation is marketing orientated and the role of ethics in marketing. You will then be introduced to the principles of branding before considering internal marketing in turbulent times. First let’s start by considering a quote from British entrepreneur Emma Harrison published in the British newspaper the Daily Mail (2004):...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...concept developed by the influential French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron in the second half of the twentieth century (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1977). In their theory, cultural capital refers to the non-financial assets that people hold (such as education, skills, etiquette, knowledge/appreciation of the arts, particular manners of speaking and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...concepts related to teams and to projects. The complexity of the interaction of people and technology is highlighted...This free course, How teams work, provides an introduction to working in virtual project teams by explaining terms and concepts related to teams and to projects. The complexity of the interaction of people and technology is highlighted....How teams work:...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs