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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...concepts, and provide a basis that will help to support and broaden your knowledge and understanding of topics further. You can find these in the Further Reading section. Please note that a glossary of terms is not provided on this course. However, you may find it helpful to keep one as you study. The course may contain some specialist vocabulary, terms or ideas with...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...concept and the rotunda is a Roman concept, therefore they’re difficult to combine and this is the result we get. There are various explanations like that. Eleanor Betts So what’s your own view? Mark Wilson Jones Well I came to this just as a young architect with a curious mind looking at the building, and I thought it looked really kind of odd without knowing all...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...concept of total internal reflection. Please, though, remember that electricity and water can be dangerous. Only do the experiment with a battery-powered torch. Fill the bath with water to a level where the torch can be fully submerged. With the room dark enough so that you can easily see where the torch beam is shining, put the torch in the water and point it towards the...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...concepts and applications...Metals in medicine: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: state the different types of imaging used in medicine, and describe how X-rays are exploited in anatomical imaging explain how cap h one postfix times cap n times cap m times cap r signals from living tissue can be converted into images useful for...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...conceptions of the causes of poverty underlying the list of comments following Activity 2: poverty is natural/inevitable; poverty is the result of poor people; poverty is the result of economic and/or political causes...Social problems: Who makes them?: 3.2 Poverty as natural/inevitable - There is a construction of poverty that identifies it as a necessary feature of...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...concept of the Byzantine icon, in Week 2 you will learn how to ‘read’ an icon. Since the subjects depicted on icons rely on the narrative of the Bible, in Week 2 you will be taught some basic skills on how to approach and identify the subject matter of an icon. This course is a short journey into the rich world of Byzantine artistic production via its most illustrious...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...concepts and how to use them, through instruction, worked examples and practice activities: reflecting on mathematics; tables; line graphs; bar charts and histograms; pie charts; analysis draw on a technical glossary, plus a a list of references to further reading and sources of help...More working with charts, graphs and tables: 1 Getting the most from charts, graphs and...
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...concepts (or ideas) involved. We might argue that ‘The very idea of religion has (or does not have) fear and brainwashing built into it’, or that ‘The very idea of being a good person is (or is not) a religious idea’. When we argue in this idea-based (conceptual) way, we are arguing in a philosophical way. Running this sort of inquiry is doing philosophy. The...