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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...law is one source of coercive pressure, but so too for example, is the knowledge that you will get promoted only if you act in ways which fit accepted ways of doing things in your organisation. Imitation refers to the pressures to copy what others do. The world is complicated and finding the best-possible solution is often difficult. One way of dealing with this...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...laws of geometry and of the precision of a clear contour that had been so important in the works of Poussin and other sources for Neoclassicism. Also, in this case the style suits the subject: what better way to represent a collapsing regime than by means of a compositional technique that encapsulates collapse? The ‘orgy’ of colour is also appropriate to the subject,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...laws that explain the occurrence of particular types of events in particular types of circumstance – for example, by identifying the mechanisms involved. Scientific knowledge, in contrast to everyday knowledge, was viewed as value-free and, therefore, objective. Science looks for relationships between variables to explore and explain natural phenomena. In particular,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...law of diminishing marginal utility. It applies to most goods and services consumed; and it even applies to the income used to buy goods and services, as illustrated in Figure 7. [A graph relating utility (on the vertical axis) to income (on the horizontal axis). There are two functions plotted: marginal utility and total utility. Marginal utility is a negatively sloped...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...law’s house on Angus’s terms because Ann is committed to caring for him. Does he feel that if he isn’t allowed to be ‘the man’ in his own home, why take responsibility for Zoe’s discipline? Ann The arguing gets to her – she turns on Zoe – then on Bob – then starts vacuum cleaning in frustration – annoyed with them all for not getting on together. Does...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...laws. Many people would argue that the sort of personal data held by democratic states is necessary for effective law enforcement, the maintenance of public health and, more generally, to manage the complexities of modern society. Others, however, may express reservations that the huge amount of information held by the state poses a threat to individual freedom and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...law and everyone who uses this title has to be registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council. However, the title ‘nurse’ is not protected so anyone can use it. In Section 5 of this course, you will be looking at the role of regulation and the Nursing & Midwifery Council. Other than a hospital, where else do nurses work? Answer Nurses work in a diverse range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...law and history. Those are all different ways of encountering God. So to say there is a God in which there is faith is only the very beginning of the struggle. Winifred Robinson So it begins with faith to which you then apply reason? Mark Goldsmith I think that’s right. It begins with the presumption that there is a God to be found – now go out and find. Winifred...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs