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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...psychological or emotional condition (Ryan, 2000, p. 163). It is also worth observing that the text, whilst occupying a privileged role in the field of drama today, would not have done so at the time of Hamlet's early performances. Similarly the author, who today commands a form of reverence among many of his readers and audiences, would not have been regarded with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...psychological but also physical breakdown. Being able to read while on active service provided a valuable means of escape – a way of separating oneself mentally for the duration of the reading experience from one’s surroundings. Serving in Palestine in early 1918, ambulance man Vero Garratt found that reading could provide him with two things that military life often...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...psychological and intellectual levels. What starts as a tension or dispute between a few can quickly draw in others and extend the sphere and range of interactions taking place. The impacts of conflict can range from destructive violence to constructive change, and at times, deconstruction is a necessary prelude to creating something different. [A black and white...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...psychological and physical control over a joyless, fearful population. Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a political system in which order is imposed on the population through ideological manipulation and the systematic use of state terror. A totalitarian state is a one-party state in which dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. The term has been used to describe both...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...psychology, sociology, politics, science and theology. This is a good thing, not a bad thing. It is something to bear in mind as you work through this course. It’s not a reason for thinking that the non-philosophical or less philosophical questions that we might raise about religion are uninteresting, or less interesting than the philosophical questions. But it is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...psychologically or socially driven factors, such as the desire to have the same (or better) product as one’s peers. To improve something: the need to improve something follows on from the driver of problem solving. Being able to do something better, faster or more reliably are all examples of improvement that can be significant drivers of design. In fact, much of modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...psychology. Some people reviewed 208 different studies in which volunteers had been invited into a psychological laboratory and had their stress hormones, their responses to doing stressful tasks, measured. And in the review, what they were interested in seeing is what kind of stresses most reliably raise levels of cortisol, the central stress hormone. And the conclusion...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...psychologically. I had to deal with the trauma and the fact that I nearly died at 26. I questioned why it happened to me – had I done something to deserve it? Could I have done something differently to prevent it? Was it my own fault? After the attack my physical injuries were healing amazingly, it was the psychological ones that were the bigger issue. I suffered from a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs