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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...concept of ‘the collage, the montage or … the palimpsest’ as a metaphor for Venetian culture during this period, and emphasises the diversity of peoples who co-inhabited the islands of the lagoon...Art in Renaissance Venice: Foreword - Trade in spices and sugar took Venetian merchants all over the Mediterranean and as far as China.1 Alum, an important chemical in...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...concept of a ‘digital life’ demonstrate an awareness of the role of information and communication technologies in a digital life describe the purpose of each of the major components of a computer system, and use common terminology to describe these components...Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century: 1 Computers: From novelty to commonplace - [Timings....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘work’ as separate spheres of activity, or even binary opposites: welfare or work. This can occur in different ways, for example: an explicit connection is drawn between welfare and work, as though they were directly dependent upon one another: welfare and work, work for welfare, welfare to work; the connection is implicit: welfare and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...concept – moral panic – to gauge the meaning of our response to the crime problem...The meaning of crime: 3.2 Counting the crime problem - What kind of evidence would support the claims of the common-sense narrative? Where would it come from and where would you find it? Most social scientists would start with the people who actually spend their time counting these...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...concept has become very influential in both human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology. However, the concept also has its critics because it is very difficult to get unambiguous evidence about exactly what kind of environment our EAA might have been. Prentice and Jebb (2003) suggest that modern day subsistence farmers in Gambia may provide a good model for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...concept at all, it's a Buddhist concept, right? 'Cause essentially the Pope suggested that we should extend communion to animals and that means that they have a soul and therefore the same rights and duties as we do. And that is quite a revolution in Catholic learning. RH: And you have some sympathy with that, personally? RT: I do have sympathy with that as a person, yes....
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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...concept of ACEs has proven itself to be very useful in terms of understanding subsequent behaviours, it should not be used as a way of assuming or predicting future challenges or anti-social behaviours. As Bateson and colleagues (2020) emphasise: Assessing risk of maltreating a child or committing a criminal offence is a complex issue thwarted with methodological...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...concept of probability could also be used to consider how the gambling industry functions and the interplay between odds and subjective probabilities, but this will not be covered in this course. In business scenarios, it is not often that you can rely on the first approach of deriving a number from first principles of probability only. More often, you have to arrive at a...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs