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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...physically, psychologically or in terms of longer term life-chances), and/or less able to challenge the political or economic system which may be underpinned by racism and other social inequalities, then they are affected by structural violence. Galtung (1969, p. 173) further argued that ‘[s]tructural violence is silent, it does not show – it is essentially static, it...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...physical movement of people (expressed in passenger-kilometres) is actually necessary. Could those journeys that are necessary be made in less energy and pollution intensive modes? This course includes a detailed consideration of current transport technologies, starting with petrol and diesel engines, looking at the efforts to reduce their environmental impact since the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...physical properties of a particular habitat interact with the organisms that inhabit it. Using case studies, you will come to learn how knowledge of ecosystems leads to understanding of their individual importance, and how they can be preserved...Gain an understanding of the natural world and how the web of life works, with illustrations from around the world. This course...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...physical components, the ‘system architecture’, and software (the programs making up an application), the ‘software architecture’. Let’s first define what we mean by ‘software architecture’ by considering the following interpretations. According to Shaw and Garlan in Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, (1996): The architecture of a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...physical beauty and supreme grace. Vasari’s biography of Raphael We will begin to examine the formation of Raphael’s identity and its on-going persistence in the present by reading two more or less heroic accounts of his life: an extract from Giorgio Vasari’s Lives, first published in 1550 and reissued in a revised second edition of 1568, and the entry on Raphael...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...physical conditions, such as anaemia, that might share some characteristics with, for instance, depression neuropsychological tests that test memory or problem-solving skills other structured behavioural observations that focus on a person’s pattern of behaviour. Objective evidence is often produced in the form of numerical and scientifically grounded results. As such,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...physics. If you've got a system which is based on information, and it copies that information from one generation to the next, and if that process of copying isn't perfect, which certainly DNA copying is not perfect, then you will certainly have evolution, that's inevitable. As Steven Rose says, really you can't disbelieve in it. Darwin's great contribution was to realise...
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Article 30 mins
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...physical abuse within her mother’s home, Mandy was taken into care at the age of two. She was fostered by a couple in a nearby town who went on to adopt her. The couple wished for Mandy to do well but rarely displayed warmth or love either towards her or towards each other. Mandy found it difficult to settle at school, but at the age of 15 she began to take a keen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs