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Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...intelligence agencies: Agencies like the CIA and Interpol enforce security policies and protect national and international security, especially during the war on terror. Insurgent groups: Unlike terrorists, insurgents aim to overthrow governments or disrupt political systems. For example, IS acted as both an insurgent group and de facto state, controlling territory in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...intelligence, described by Adams and Sheard (2017, p. 46) as, ‘an understanding of your own and others’ emotions and using that knowledge to direct your thinking and respond more appropriately’. Other skills, among many, include being able to communicate effectively, to respect confidentiality, and to be able to practice within legal and ethical professional...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...intelligent flow and management of information, this tells you a lot about why networking is so valuable.’ (Kozierok, 2005) With just a few amendments, this quote can describe the benefits of social networking to any educator: Most of the benefits of networking can be divided into two generic categories: connectivity and sharing. Networks allow teachers to be connected...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...intelligence amongst the British people and a lack of know-how, which turns ‘know-how’ and ‘practical intelligence’ into wrongly neglected ‘goods’ in the British ethical constellation. So know-how seems to have become a ‘good’, something that I think Socrates would agree with. Later on, the play deals with a number of accidents that occurred on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...intelligence, temperament, happiness/unhappiness, attitudes, self-knowledge, unconscious aspects. Interpersonal/cultural: family, friends, colleagues, birthplace, education, hobbies, beliefs, values, lifestyle. Personal history: major events in their life, including the best and the most traumatic times. Don’t write any more than outline notes for the moment. You will...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...intelligent and full of goodwill. It is preposterous that men of goodwill should feel compelled to play with the life or death of us all. There are those who think it is not very realistic to wish to change reality. The discord and mistrust that led to this absurd situation, we are told, have always existed and always will exist. But if we had never fought to change...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...intelligent scrutiny was a cultural skill that might, to a degree at least, be taken for granted by both patrons and artists during the medieval and Renaissance periods. Works of art might not have hung in galleries, but it seems that medieval and Renaissance audiences knew how to look at them...Art and visual culture: Medieval to modern: Art and adornment - It is also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...artificial light; before 1850, few local prisons in Britain were illuminated after dark (McConville, 1981, p. 360). In larger prisons, including convict prisons, the sheer number of prisoners enrolled in the prison school often meant that there wasn’t enough time on Sundays or in the evenings to teach everyone. [This is a black and white illustration of prisoners at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs