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Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...course will help you to become familiar with the requirements and demands of postgraduate study and to develop the skills and confidence to pursue your learning further...This badged open course, Succeeding in postgraduate study, will introduce you to the nature of Master's level study. It offers essential preparation for pursuing your learning at this level. Watch the...
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...course, Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture, engages with questions about the relationship between religion and culture. Are they different things or synonyms that emphasise different ways of looking at the same phenomena? The course uses ‘either/or or both/and’ to point to those possibilities for understanding how religion and culture relate to each...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...course, learners will develop and explore skills to empower themselves as leaders...This free course, Advancing Black leadership, explores techniques members of the Black and Minority Ethnic communities can use to influence people and organisations with power. Advancing Black leadership builds on and consolidates learning from the Introducing Black leadership course....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...course, Rising China and Africa's development: oil, considers the impact of the rise of China on Africa’s development through the lens of oil production...China has emerged as a global economic superpower over the past few decades. This has sparked intense academic and popular debate about the long-term implications of its continued growth. The expansion of China into...
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...course, Economics explains discrimination in the labour market, will help you look at this problem from a new perspective: through economics. You will learn how economists have tried to understand what drives this distortion of the labour market and why women and those from minority ethnic groups seem to suffer the most...Discrimination in the labour market exists in many...
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...course, What can philosophy tell us about race?, will introduce you to debates about the fundamental nature of race and racism, and encourage you to explore the ways in which philosophy matters for understanding the world around us...Categorising human beings into races has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on people’s lives. Many societies have been shaped...
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...course, Historical perspectives on race, will introduce you to ideas and scholarship dealing with the construction of race, and help you to start exploring people’s lived experiences of race through a set of case studies from the late eighteenth century onwards...Race is not biological. It is a social construction. Yet we know that in our contemporary world and in...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people...Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas...