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Studying Darwin
Nature & Environment

Studying Darwin

...social behaviour. This is the fifth course in the ‘Studying mammals’ series. The opportunists Many mammals are food specialists, with complex adaptations that gear them toward a particular food source. So how do the omnivores survive and prosper without these fancy evolutionary features? This course examines the physiology, diet and strategies of some of these...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...social imagination of a society in any given period. European crime fiction since 1945 In 1945, most of Europe lay in ruins. The US government proposed a programme of economic reconstruction which, along with the prestige the US had gained from its role in the defeat of Nazism, led to an interest in the ‘American way of life’ in broad sections of the European public....
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...social benefit. It also suggests that public health initiatives will inevitably be responding to health crises that are either chronic (e.g. coronary heart disease) or acute (e.g. avian flu). This crisis-led approach means that public health becomes very much issue-led. This then hints at two senses of the public: the idea of ‘the public as a social entity or target for...
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Article 15 mins
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...social change in the context of conflicts of goals, values and interests … a process or an activity that can take place anywhere, not just in developing countries. (1996, p. 106)...Discovering development management: 3 A conceptual framework - Thomas’s definition of development management as ‘the management of intervention in the process of social change in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...social, environmental, life experiences, and other influences and not simply a consequence of parenting. 1 in 5 children aged between 13 and 18 will have a mental illness. Around half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin before the age of 14. Parents and family members have a major role in support and recovery. There is no such thing as mental illness in...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...social failure with few skills or without identifiable employment, she is a high-level CIA operative in charge of recruiting, training and managing assets. The audience is exposed to her bipolar disorder which she keeps secret from her employers because she would lose security clearance. So she obtains medication from her sister, a psychiatrist, rather than seeking...
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...social care workforce? Moreover, is it acceptable to place the ‘burden’ of providing help on those who may not have had opportunities to develop confidence in supporting others? It could be suggested that any expectation on the part of the State promotes a ‘them and us’ situation, which sets up the notion that communities can provide support in place of or instead...
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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...social transition. It was a European phenomenon, and had an impact upon many spheres of thought and activity. Advocating freedom and independence, many artists and philosophers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries challenged the way people looked at the world, emphasizing the integrity of the individual and refusing to bow to convention. Blake, Coleridge,...
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Article 10 mins