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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...think about globalisation. Jot down the words and phrases that come to mind when you hear the term 'globalisation'. What is globalisation? Globalisation is not so much a thing, as a series of overlapping, connected and interdependent processes. As a term, globalisation is an attempt to capture the profound social, cultural, political and economic changes ushered in by new...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...think about what it means? What makes something a World Religion? Why do we group some religions – almost always the same five – in this way? In this short course, you’re going to do just that. You’ll look at the potential issues with classifying religions like this, and why scholars are increasingly moving away from talking about World Religions. You’ll even...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...system works. You’re always kind of thinking, is there more? Should I be doing more? Should I be doing something different? Is there some other service that I might be accessing? For me, it was really kind of scary. At the beginning, you feel very, very vulnerable because not only are you trying to manage a situation in a practical and emotional sense, but also,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Witnesses and Evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Witnesses and Evidence

...system? Should we really burden members of the public with the responsibility of resolving our criminal and civil disputes - or would we be better having a panel of experts? And what about expert witnesses? After so many recent miscarriages of justice, how much weight should be given to the testimony of such witnesses? Gary Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open...
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Audio 13 mins
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...think that their relationship with their doctor or teacher is nothing more than a commercial transaction. This is partly an issue of terminology and becomes less problematic if we recognise that many aspects of marketing are useful and appropriate in not-for-profit contexts. In the not-for-profit context we might consider the example of a doctor in the UK National Health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...think in the early days the Fragile Planet series, Fragile Earth series on Channel 4, there was an amazing film called Korup about the rain forest, when the very first time we were up in the canopy and that was extraordinary, but probably the series that most influenced me was Kingdom of the Ice Bear, a series done in the eighties about the natural history of the artic...
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Video 15 mins
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...think about topic areas. You could choose a topic: in which you are interested; around which there is current debate; where there are proposals for reform or where there has been recent reform; where the law in one jurisdiction has taken a different approach to the law in other jurisdictions; where a significant precedent has just be set or where there are significant...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...system for that purpose. You might be inclined to think that the government is entitled to deploy a surveillance system because there are problems that need to be dealt with, somehow; perhaps you view the system as just a technological extension of the police. However, individuals too have rights, and this raises questions concerning the legitimacy of surveillance...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs