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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...de Waal presents and discusses examples of collaboration and co-operation between animals (including in problem-solving). He frames the need for co-operation as part of the basis of morality. His discussion includes some early work with chimpanzees, which led to the ‘cooperating elephants’ study that you learned about in Section 5.2 of this course, as well as footage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...de Commynes remarked that ‘most of the people are foreigners’. And this perception of a society in which northerners (Flemish and Germans), Dalmatians, Greeks, Muslims, Jews and mainland Italians mingled with indigenous Venetians was sharpened in the sixteenth century by the Venetian writer Francesco Sansovino: ‘Peoples from the most distant parts of the world...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...des ordres et simples dignités (‘Treatise on orders and plain dignities’); the other is from an article by Defoe (1660–1731), a novelist and social commentator, in an eighteenth-century newspaper. Read the two quotations then answer the following questions: How many groups or orders do Loyseau and Defoe identify? What is the basis for their division of society?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...adults, it's things as varied as cholesterol levels, blood pressure. There's all sorts of ways in which we measure health and wellbeing. And I think in some ways we could become quite fixated on that. HELEN KING We've certainly got lots of equipment to measure these things. I mean, we've got the blood pressure monitor here. So take one of these home, you don't have to go...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...adults learn most effectively in a variety of ways, that we have as human beings a range of differentiated learning styles. If we had access to resources like this, we could make learning real … Having the freedom to walk a bit more, have a bit more space, spread out into this environment is so conducive to learning. It's very special. Inspiring Learning for All (2004)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability

...adult, to be a sexual being. You have to go through that process all the time through from childhood into young adulthood and beyond. I think if you’ve never had that education, that information, that support, you’re not going to go out and know how to have a relationship. You’re not going to have those social skills and that information behind you. And if you’re...
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Video 15 mins
The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...de-legitimised his victory was music to the ears of the Labour Right. And some knew, deep down, that if enough of a storm was created about infiltration, this would provide cover for the party apparatus to deny more leftwing activists a vote, and that this could, just about, influence a close result. [Peter Mandelson] Will the former Communist Peter Mandelson find himself...
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Article 10 mins
The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...de-emphasizing his Cuban roots. With bombastic “outsider” candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson currently leading the Republican field, it will be interesting to see if Rubio’s youth and migration story allow him to distance himself from Washington or if the contradictions inherent in his message, his story, and immigrants’ relationship to Republican primary...
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Article 5 mins