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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...concepts to more sustainably manage waste and resources identify some of the emerging social responses to China’s environmental problems assess your own waste management habits...Waste management and environmentalism in China: 1 Waste in China - From their changing diet to owning more household objects, the Chinese are becoming great consumers. Production of consumer...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...concepts of property, the difference between private property and public goods is an important distinction. Here a key issue is the economic conditions surrounding the production of goods, and whether production should be based on markets and an economic return acquired through sales of the goods. An important issue in enabling a market to function was seen to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...concept of ‘ethics work’ provides a helpful framework for conceptualising the task of ethical development for social workers, indicating seven features that may be attended to by practitioners developing as moral agents. Banks argues that ethics work is ‘an important antidote to the rules-based managerialism of much contemporary practice’ (p. 35). Ethics work...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...concept formed by human beings, and reinforced by social practices, which includes the belief that some roles and behaviours are more appropriate and suited to certain genders. People are socialised into gender roles within their societies from a very young age. For example, in Western societies, girls were traditionally given dolls and prams to play with, which would...
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Article 10 mins
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...concepts and perspectives too. Nowadays the word ‘discipline’ is used interchangeably with ‘subject’ as you will find throughout this course. The terms ‘multidisciplinary, ‘interdisciplinary’, ‘cross disciplinary’ and ‘transdisciplinary’ are used to describe the different ways subjects can be combined. Multidisciplinarity is where two or more...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...concepts are not directly taught in this course so if you want to know more about them then you should either study the specific courses on Systems thinking and practice and Systems diagramming or, if you want to learn them in an environmental context, the courses on Understanding the environment: a systems approach and Understanding the environment: problems with the way...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...concept of free will and the capacity to choose between good and evil. Materialism, then, had disturbing implications for Christianity and for morality conceived of as obedience to a set of divine injunctions. First, it seemed to leave little scope for God, except as a possible prime mover or great architect of the universe who, having set the universe in motion,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...concept of evidential 'weight' means how much influence the evidence will have on the fact-finder's decision. This applies both evidence from lay witnesses and expert witnesses, though often expert evidence will tend to carry more weight overall. In the following sections, you will be introduced to some of the key admissibility rules concerning expert evidence, namely...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs