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Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...account. These include the following: the language you want to study how much time you have to study how you want to study – in a class, or private study the level you want to study – short course, GCSE, A Level, university course the cost of the course the location of the course and how far you are willing to travel. Bearing these considerations in mind, have a look...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...accountable is the key point – part of what some see as a welcome ‘democratisation’ of science. Most scientists would be wary of any such step although others might ask if there is no prospect of ‘minds being changed’ – to the point perhaps where a piece of work or its application is discouraged or prevented – what is the point of discussion of this type? So...
Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...account of environmental factors in decision making can be both complex and challenging. This free course, Introducing environmental decision making, considers decisions in their broader contexts and advocates a systems approach to environmental decision making...Many of the decisions we make have implications for our environment, particularly those concerning natural...
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...account of opportunities and challenges encountered by tree-dwelling mammals and of evolved adaptations linked with arboreal life provide examples of the closeness (and sometimes interdependence) of the relationship between tree dwellers and their habitat show an awareness of differences in lifestyle and forms of locomotion amongst a wide range of prosimians...Studying...
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...account of the way in which the invention of the steam engine caused changes in many different industries has become well known. He calls this process ‘technological interrelatedness’. In all this diversity of technological improvement, the unity of movement is apparent: change begat change. For one thing, many technical improvements were feasible only after advances...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...account differences and disadvantages and sought to overcome them. They used to write briefs to intervene in Supreme Court cases that involved the concept of equality. And they had some initial successes where the court picked up on their arguments. But after a while, they felt that the court had stopped listening to them, perhaps had taken the view that equality or that...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...accounts agree that she was one of several butch lesbians who fought back against the police. Tammy Novak was an 18-year-old transgender woman who is also known to be one of the first people to fight back. She had lived with mob owner Fat Tony so was one of the few allowed to enter the bar in full women’s clothing. The bar was mostly made of a third white, third black...
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...account. Kirkby, its ancient name, implies that it was a Danish settlement, distinguishable from others around, at the time it was first formed, by the presence of a church within its precincts. Probably the first Christian place of worship in this neighbourhood, a thousand years ago, stood on this spot, long before the present structure was raised, and to it the scanty...