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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...laws that more or less made her an outlaw. Jackie started singing with Nashville Gospel Groups and performing on the radio when she was just a teenager. She then joined a travelling carnival and her success as a performer led to her sharing the stage with various soul legends and having a rich career in the 1960s. Jackie only recorded one live album which was released in...
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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...Scots coming over from Ireland, the movement of goods and peoples is not new. One of the things we tend to think about as being characteristic of globalisation is the reach of the global economy, the way that the wider economy can affect and change local economic circumstances. However, the changing global economy has been affecting livelihoods in Scotland for generations...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...Scots laird at the turn of the seventeenth century should have thus devoted the energies left over from the management of his estates remains a puzzle. Up to the publication of his description of logarithms in 1614, three years before his death, Napier was best known to the world for his Protestant religious treatise A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...law. Several questions came to mind when I read this. Does that mean I can’t legally put the music onto my MP3 player? Can the US Federal Bureau of Investigation extradite and punish me (a UK citizen who bought the CD in the UK) if I do? Should I return the CD to the place I bought it from and ask for my money back? Or will I be in trouble only if I distribute copies of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...law defined white as anyone ‘who has no trace whatsoever [not one drop] of any blood other than Caucasian’. This racist view was controversial at the time; it indicated an official position that race could not be determined by physical skin colour, but would be defined by state officials intent on preserving established systems of power based on white
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...law, being a member of a jury, and paying taxes. This focus on rights and duties is a conventional understanding of citizenship, however, it is not the only way in which contemporary citizenship can be understood. Your list may, for example, contain ideas about what it means to belong, e.g. that we should share values, common ancestry, or a language. Citizenship is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...law and Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws. Whilst all of this is necessary to understand electronics, it doesn’t really explain how electronics allows you to watch a live broadcast from the Caribbean. In part, this is due to the sheer scale of electronic systems. A typical computer in 2020 has around 10 000 000 000 (or 10 billion) transistors. Nobody could sit down...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...law and also social work and political conflict. CIARÁN SHANNON My name is Ciarán Shannon. I am a consultant clinical psychologist. I’ve always had both clinical and academic roles and that’s very similar today. I’m a consultant clinical psychologist who manages specialist psychology service in mental health in an NHS trust. And I’m also director of the trust...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs