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Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...economic and administrative records, literary, religious and scientific works, word-lists, and mathematical problems and tables. Nearly all of the texts that give us our fullest understanding of Babylonian mathematics—indeed, of any mathematics before the Greeks—date from about 1800—1600 BC. During this period, King Hammurabi unified Mesopotamia out of a rabble of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...economic injustice. That year, while campaigning on behalf of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, King was assassinated, sparking another wave of urban riots across the country. There were uprisings in over a hundred cities, including Washington D.C., New York City, Detroit and Chicago...The American Civil Rights Movement: 9 ‘Black Power’ - By this...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...economic and social decisions taken by the government? For example, Iceland prosecuted several bankers as a result of the 2008 Global financial crisis, but few other countries did so. Is it always against the law to take another life? What about conduct in wartime, in military or policing service or assisting euthanasia? Activity 3 Is it a crime? Timing: Allow about 10...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...economic contexts. This makes development management rich in complexity and sometimes rather messy! You will recall that in Week 1 it was noted that development actors often see development quite differently from the communities they are working with. In the next section you will start with watching a Ted Talk that seeks to explore how low income groups address life’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...economic and social consequences seem to me to exemplify what a fallacy this is. The reading also highlights how complex the process is of testing a seemingly straightforward hypothesis in the ‘real world’ as opposed to carefully controlled laboratory conditions. Fitzpatrick chronicles the barrage of experts stepping forward to criticise Wakefield's study and issue...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...economic status, so will often use terms such as ‘professional’ or ‘homeowner’. This difference seems to suggest that women ‘think’ that men look for personal attractiveness whilst men ‘think’ that women want security – the wording of the adverts reflecting what each gender ‘thinks’ that the other is looking for – is supported by a range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...economic, social and political relations between classes are issues on which they differ. One of the clearest alternatives to Iain McLean’s thesis was provided by John Foster (LR, D.iii & iv see section 6) who argued that the years 1914-19 represented a critical juncture where class struggle and consciousness took a qualitative leap forward to the edge of a...
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Article 20 mins
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...economic redevelopment and population growth after a long period of post-industrial economic decline. The area of Sandford we are concentrating on is a suburb on the edge of the town that is experiencing changes associated with the redevelopment process. As an area of urban regeneration, old terraced housing is being cleared away for modern social housing developments....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs