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Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...law, the language of institutions, workplace relations, medical communication, media discourse, translation and interpreting, lexicography, language policy and planning, advertising and branding, and many, many more. Language, after all, is everywhere. Discussion Applied linguistics is not about the theory of language or the description of the structure of language. It is...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...law, we know that covert and subtler forms of racism persist. It is important to understand how power works so that you can be better positioned to offer alternative forms of power. You will therefore begin this week of study by defining power, learning that it is not something inherently bad or good, but a collective capacity that can be put to various uses. From the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...law. Many other quasars are now known - a recent catalogue lists more than 7000 - and the vast majority have even greater redshifts, the record (in 2003) being more than 6. All quasars must therefore be highly luminous to be seen by us at all. Kaufmann III, W.J., Galaxies and Quasars, 1979. W.H. Freeman and Company Publishers © Kaufmann III, W.J., Galaxies and Quasars,...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Sut gall corfforaethau leihau olion troed carbon digidol?
Nature & Environment

Sut gall corfforaethau leihau olion troed carbon digidol?

...law, gall gostyngiadau mewn olion troed carbon digidol gael effaith sylweddol tymor agos a chanlyniadau eraill cadarnhaol ym mhob rhan o'r gweithlu, er enghraifft, goresgyn petruster hinsoddol a helpu i ymdrin ag eco-bryder. I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am hyn, gweler yr erthygl yn y gyfres hon ar weithio o bell. Ar y llaw arall, bydd sefydliadau sy'n gweithredu nawr i...
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...law’s appearance. Later he remembers that over sixty years ago ‘his mother had given him the works of Byron in that very room’ (p.5) – another way in which the past is handed down to the present: from a volume of Romantic poetry, to his Victorian mother, to his recollection in the present moment. Mr Oliver’s quotation from Byron’s ‘She walks in beauty’...
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...Law, 19, 411–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034564 Birtchnell, J. (2014). The interpersonal circle and the interpersonal octagon: A confluence of ideas. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 21, 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1819 Christianson, S.A. and Holmberg, M.D. (2002). Murderers’ and sexual offenders’ experiences of police interviews and their...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...laws and rights in existence within your society. You may consider that science and technology made it a very safe time for you to be born, perhaps that your parent(s) had a stable job in a strong economy, perhaps that there was good maternity health care for your mother. However, you may be thinking that there was no free health service in place to provide immunisations...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...Scots teachers ‘at burnout’ with seven in 10 stressed ‘most or all’ of the time When you have finished this task, you may want to have a discussion with friends or colleagues about the issues raised. Optional reading: You might also want to look at an article that shows it is not like this everywhere! Here is one about how a move to work in East Africa made a...