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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...John and Melanie (nee Illingworth) Kotsopoulos: http://www.flickr.com [Details correct as of 7th December 2007] Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...course, in that you would probably want to be able to open up conversation with the community member to try to find out what’s behind their reaction. And you’d want to do this quickly, so that you might resolve it quickly too. How would you ‘diagnose’ the behaviour of the community member towards you? What behaviours do you think they are displaying towards you?...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...course explores this phenomenon, drawing on an Open University study on how staff (tutors) can support students with a mental health condition, and considers both what staff and institutions can do to improve student mental wellbeing...There is an increasing prevalence of university students who need mental health support and university staff benefit from training on this...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...Open University Press. More like this … If you’ve enjoyed this OpenLearn free course, you might also like to study the courses below, which were also adapted from D867 Critical criminological perspectives: An introduction to critical criminology Crimes of the powerful Criminology beyond crime...Race, ethnicity and crime: Acknowledgements - Course image Chris Yarzab in...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...Open University. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Two concepts of freedom: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: distinguish between negative and positive concepts of freedom understand the main points in Isaiah Berlin's article ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ recognise emotive language, to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...open to disagreement and, as you read through this course, you will begin to identify the ways in which science itself is a contested concept and can mean very different things to different approaches in the philosophy of social science. In addition, frequently used concepts, such as experience, causality, theory, models and scientific method, may have very different...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...course, but also the media and held open meetings with different groups of businessmen, community forums, the local authority, we we told everybody what we were doing. There was a lot of support from both the people who come into town to work, those people who have businesses, and those people who come into town on an evening to socialise and drink, we were quite...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...course allows you to listen to a discussion on the purpose, efficacy and regulation of prisons. Does prison benefit those serving the sentence or simply satisfy a public demand?...Does prison work and what purpose does it serve? This free course allows you to listen to a discussion on the purpose, efficacy and regulation of prisons. Does prison benefit those serving the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr