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Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...modes of subjectivity constituted so as to make possible United States interventionist policies in the Philippines circa 1950?’ There are three mechanisms Doty identifies by which subjects are constituted: presupposition, predication and subject positioning. Presupposition means the assumptions you make about reality. Who are the important actors in world politics? How...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...modes of dress, attitudes, values, beliefs, subjects that are and aren't talked about, and so on). These rules serve many purposes, a very important one of which is to distinguish the group from the rest of the world; they are the features that identify it as a group and, amongst other things, define its boundary. A group with no boundary-defining rules would include...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...et al., 2013, p. 1040) This work suggests that CFL and LED bulbs exceed the USA regulatory limits for various metals by some considerable margin. This does not mean that the bulbs are therefore toxic, but it does mean they exceed the regulatory limits. (It may be the limits are too stringent.) The energy-efficient light bulb is but one example of where an innovation to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...et al, 2000; Reiter-Palmon and Illies, 2004). Problems can come in the form of opportunities as well as obstacles, so in this course the term ‘challenges’ will be used to reflect the complex and interrelated problems that leaders often face in turbulent, changing times. [Described image] Figure 1 Overcoming challenges A leadership challenge is a situation that leaders...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...mode of pastoral. ‘Pastoral’ in Shakespeare’s time was a type of writing that usually involved shepherds speaking in verse dialogue on a range of topics, including the simple virtues of country life and the trials of young love. It was a genre which enjoyed huge popularity in the ancient Greek and Roman classical period (which inaugurated many of its characteristic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...le droit écossais ou anglais, dans le cas d’aliments vendus par le manufacturer à un distributeur dans des circonstances qui empêchent le distributeur, ou l’ultimate acheteur ou consommateur, de découvrir par l’inspection un vice ou une défectuosité, le manufacturier á un devoir légal vis-á-vis l’ultimate acheteur ou consommateur d’agir comme un bon...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...modes of travel is management systems. When the system does break down, and there is an aircraft crash, the inherent disadvantages are revealed, but extensive investigations take place to determine the cause of the incident. Examples such as the Concorde crash, the capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise, the fire on the Piper Alpha oil installation, the fire at King's...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...temps passé. Paris: Claude Barbin. Shyamalan, Ishana Night (Director). (2024) The Watchers [Film]. Blinding Edge Pictures; Inimitable Pictures Shine, A.M (n.d) ‘About A.M Shine’. A.M. Shine, Writer. Available: About — A.M. Shine (Accessed 29 September 2025) Shine, A. M (2023) The Creeper. London: Bloomsbury Press. Shine, A. M (2025) Stay in the Light. London:...
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