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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...central to the way in which we approach environmental decision making, so the concept of environment will be explored iteratively in this course. At this stage, I simply want to introduce the concept, to encourage you to be critical of how the term is used and to explain the way the term will be used. The words ‘environment’ and ‘environmental’ appear a lot in...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...central and local governments, the private sector and voluntary associations in providing medical services understand the concept of ‘medicalisation’ and assess the degree of power doctors had over people's lives in the early twentieth century...Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare: 1 Access to healthcare, 1880–1930 - The late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...central theme in the organisation’s communications. Fraser Doherty’s story might be seen as reinforcing another stereotype of the entrepreneur as an exceptional individual. However the case also contains evidence of external factors that helped him create a successful business venture at such an early age. In the next activity, we examine the influence exerted by...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...central role in our emotional perception and our responses (LeDoux, 1998). The amygdala has a similar role in other mammals such as rats and monkeys – this is important and relevant, given the use of animal models in scientific studies to study several aspects of issues related to emotions and emotional disorders, as will become clearer if you study the related...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...central proposition of Mednick's research in this area is that adopted childrens’ criminal behaviour is more similar to their biological parents’ criminal behaviour than their adoptive parents. On the basis of his analysis of research findings from Denmark, Mednick argues that there is indeed a stronger relationship between the criminality of the adopted child and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...Central to Gaut's account is the idea that mental acts have a ‘thought-content’ that can be thought of in different ways. The idea is often expressed by saying that mental acts involve the adoption of a certain attitude to a proposition – a ‘propositional attitude’ – or, in the case of objects, involve thinking of an object under a certain ‘mode of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...central part of their identity. They were constructed as ‘Jews’ by a racist state, and had to construct themselves as ‘Jews’ in order to qualify as refugees and receive financial assistance from Jewish organisations in Germany and England. London (2000) describes the ‘deal’ that the British government did with Jewish communities in the UK to ensure that they...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...central aims of this course. Where the articulation of welfare with work is closest, in workfare regimes like those of the USA, the impact of policy on almost every aspect of ‘the personal’ is potentially profound. For Tamarla Owens, it is not just daily routines that are directly determined by policy, but it is also how her life is ordered, the way she experiences...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs