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Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...attention at the playing of the National Anthem, and in America of course we salute the flag. So we have this notion of the good citizen as embodied, as male, usually white, active, fit and able, in effect in complete contrast to what is seen as an unvalued, inactive, perceived inactive, disabled other. Disability is always a marginalized said status in our society, one...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...attentions are drawn to such practices. As Tombs suggests, by thinking more carefully about the importance of power, the way it operates, and the considerable resources that the powerful have at their disposal, the imbalance of criminal justice and problems of social harm become more clearly observable. You should now listen to the audio below, ‘Research, theory and...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...attention given to what the term actually means. Kathleen Braden and Fred Shelley define geopolitics as ‘the study of International Relations from a geographical perspective’ (2000, p. 5). From this more disciplinary perspective, space and place remain of primary importance in international relations, and thus issues of place, location, scale, region and boundaries...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...attention towards how innovation happens – ‘the process by which new ideas are successfully exploited’. This is central to the management of technological innovation, and hence to much of this course. The new idea or invention is not by itself enough; it needs to be part of a wider process that realises value. Figure 1 illustrates this process of innovation as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...attention to the numbers you could hear. You might have also tried to hear the word ‘ans’ or words such as ‘depuis ’ or ‘pendant’ which act as a signal that a period of time is being spoken about. You might also have listened for words such as ‘presque’ and ‘près de’ indicating an approximate period of time. To get the number of children, you would...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...attention, perception, planning, and memory. So the brain is getting trained for actual performance during visualization. It’s been found that mental practices can enhance motivation, increase confidence and self-efficacy, improve motor performance, prime your brain for success, and increase states of flow – all relevant to achieving your best life! (LeVan, 2009)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...attention on the personal skill set that individuals hold, as opposed to technical skills. These are often differentiated between the terms ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ skills, which will be explored in the next section. Depending on the stage of your career you may have built up a comprehensive collection of skills or you might be earlier in your journey and only...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...attention is drawn to their rather anomalous taxonomic status. Indeed, most taxonomists now favour grouping tarsiers within the primate suborder that comprises the true monkeys and apes and urge the abandonment of the term prosimian. You're likely to encounter this preferred classification scheme in your wider reading and in the classification scheme featured in the Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs