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History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...accountable. CASSIE LEEDHAM: Being organised isn't important, but being motivated is. And being able to finish things is important because you can be very creative. But if you can't hit a deadline, you're not going to be able to do it professionally. So you have to have that thing in you that says, I'm going to get this done on this date and it's going to happen and then...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...accounts of Captain Cook's voyages (Owen, 1971, p. 3). Robert apparently believed every word in the books to be true, which in the examples of The Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe may have proved significant in shaping his views about religion and enterprise. Certainly as an adult he identified closely with the famous shipwrecked hero cast up on his desert island....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...account of executing some of his opponents. We do not have extensive literary accounts of Hadrian’s reign. Suetonius (who was writing during that reign) ended his imperial biographies with Domitian. Tacitus and Pliny the Younger were both dead before Hadrian came to power. Dio Cassius’ account of Hadrian’s reign does survive, but only in abridged form. We also have...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...accounts of ‘anxious, miserable, melancholic people’ and that ‘every age presumes it is the most anxious age ever’, so there is some quotient of anxiety that is relatively fixed throughout the human population and is enduring (i.e. a percentage of the population will tend to be more ‘anxious’ than others). But there is an argument that certain eras (including...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...accounts for some three-quarters of total UK beer sales. Indeed, the drink is firmly lodged in the British identity: it’s the pint of choice for banter-loving, football-watching blokes. And that helped the alcohol industry realise the extent to which it could reshape drinking traditions – something it has been doing ever since. [Beer bottles in a field] Around the...
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Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...account for the transmission of eye colour in humans. However, not until 1953 was the structure of DNA deduced by Watson and Crick. Hence, most of this course will consider aspects of genetics and the genome that were understood long before the publication of the first draft of the human genome. Human genetics is a huge topic. It would be possible to write a whole course...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...accounted for.} The group B ponds allowed Endler to check whether any change observed in the group C ponds could have been due, not so much to the addition of a fish that preys on guppies, but to the addition of any other species of fish or even any other species of predatory fish (whether it preyed on guppies or not). {So again, the group B ponds serve as 'controls' for...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...account for good interaction design...An introduction to interaction design: 3 The ‘who, where and what’ of the design context - Section 2 discussed the importance, when designing an interactive product, of usability and user experience goals. At the same time, the discussion of design principles emphasised that their implementation needs to consider the user...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs