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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...attention from scholars and teachers. While vocabulary and grammar, to mention two of the most substantial areas, receive considerable attention and become important foci in the process of teaching and learning a language, pronunciation is somehow side-lined and treated as an extra ingredient. Many Foreign Language (FL) teaching materials do not include the systematic...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...attention here primarily on monkeys. Colour vision, a large brain and intelligence are of great importance in the lives of anthropoids, enabling them to eat foods inaccessible to many other animals and to exploit social situations. In this course, we will be looking at characteristics of primates that differ, or are enhanced, in anthropoids and discussing these attributes...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...attention of footloose capital. This kind of ‘globalisation’ narrative, in which places are at the mercy of the whims of fickle global investors, is just one example of how academic descriptions of cities or places are not simply neutral observations. Fields such as geography, urban studies or planning theory are very active participants in the processes which shape...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...attention to difficult sentences, we felt that ‘Lombroso and Ferrero, to whom criminal men were biologically less evolved, saw women as being less evolved than men and closer to primitive types and argued that natural selection had bred out their criminal tendencies’ (third paragraph on page 16 of the reading) was rather complex and a possible stumbling block. One...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...attention to questions of ‘nation’, its peopling, and national identity in colonial and neo-colonial configurations of power. It helps us to consider links between contemporary government approaches to refugees and asylum seekers and the generalised anxieties over multiculturalism and cultural identity prevailing in the UK in the early twenty-first century. The nature...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...attention of the person experiencing it, the mood effect can disappear (Schwarz, 1990). So it has been suggested that although moods (like emotions) can have identifiable sources, the effects of moods depend on the sources going unnoticed; and that a distinction between moods and emotions is therefore meaningful and even useful. Certainly, it may help our understanding of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...attention, perception, memory, problem solving and language. Organising our thoughts involves: using mental images forming concepts (putting information into categories) developing schemas (constructing mental packages of related information). We will now look at these three types of organisation in more detail...Starting with psychology: 3.2 Using mental images - As...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...attention to it. For example, all day I have had a slight pain in my left leg. I have not thought about it much, but it has been there, in the background. Occasionally, however, we deliberately focus on our mental states and attend to their features. Now that I have mentioned the pain in my leg, I have started thinking about it and attending to its location, quality and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs