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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...Techniques such as focus group interviews, projective techniques and in-depth interviews are generally used. Qualitative research requires greater clarity of goals during the design stages. In order to make sense of the considerable diversity, and even division, to be found within the field of qualitative research, we will sketch three broad approaches, each of which has...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...techniques that are used for analysing poetry and other texts can be relevant in reading a speech like this, but what is important to remember is that it is being delivered by an actor, in costume, to other actors, and to an audience. This is where a play text differs crucially from a poem, a novel or a short story – it is a text for performance. Poems and stories may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...techniques. He argues that as a result of the 2007 wildfires, lessons have been learnt about the importance of prevention, including effectively educating communities about their civil responsibilities. He also identifies that in response to the 2007 wildfires, the fire service has improved its co-ordination and training methods and has recruited more volunteers. George...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...technique with the remaining learning outcomes as you work through the rest of the course. In this section, I'll be looking more deeply at some of the implications and consequences for mammals of living in trees, which will involve looking at the lifestyles of a range of examples. A good deal of what I say is descriptive 'natural history', much in the style that David...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...techniques as a form of originality. Joseph Koerner’s The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993) is a dense and masterful tome that takes Dürer’s famous Self-portrait in Munich (see Figure 6) as its starting point, asking how Dürer’s portrait initiated a new discourse in Germany about selfhood and artistic sovereignty. Koerner sensitively...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...techniques of Cubism with social realism in the traditional mural medium of fresco. He had seen Renaissance examples of this while travelling widely in Italy before his return to Mexico (Coffey, 2016, p. 349). In History of Mexico this fusion can be seen, in particular, in the central wall with the flattening out of the mural plane and the large cast of historical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...techniques for drawing curved line graphs are beyond the scope of this course...More working with charts, graphs and tables: 4.1.1 When are line graphs used? - A line graph shows a relationship between two variables. In other words, it shows how one thing varies by comparison to another. For example, a distance-time graph shows distance varying against the time of day, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...techniques. These range from ‘I am busy at the moment, I am not sure what you want to know, try to work it out yourself’, through to ‘I haven't got my glasses’ – all very similar to the techniques employed by those who have difficulty in reading. If I see a pure mathematics problem then I don't attempt it. I tend not to be drawn to articles in newspapers/TV that...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs