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Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...English translation 1878) is based largely on artists' ‘Lives’ (though it is thematic rather than biographical in form). In this context, according to Soussloff, it is no wonder that Burckhardt is able to celebrate ‘The Development of the Individual’ as one of his sections. Burckhardt's characterization of the civilization of the Renaissance in Italy relied on...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...English Gothic, though less usual in continental Europe, it also occurs in Asian architecture. Deborah Howard has argued that ‘the intention behind the introduction of the ogee arch and its adoption as a trademark by the Venetian merchant class was to allude to a mental image of the Orient’14 – a ‘mental image’ composed out of myriad individual memories of trade...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...English language, the UK is clearly a model on how not to do it. If you look at the last 20 years or so of UK climate policy, a few things have happened. One thing that has not happened is that emissions have fallen in any measurable or substantive way. But what has happened is that most people got a little bit poorer because energy's more expensive, or a little bit...
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Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...English spelling). Protons, atoms and molecules are too small to be measured in this way. virus bacteria red blood cell plant cell flea ladybird human being the Earth star solar system galaxy universe (largest) Learning about these things as separate topics means children don’t get a sense of the size of things that cannot be seen by the naked eye, or are so large that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...English word ‘father’. A line over a ‘u’ or over an ‘i’, as in ‘tanpūra’ or ‘sthāyī’, respectively, indicates that the vowel is given a longer duration. A mark over an ‘s’, as in ‘bandiś’, indicates that the letter is to be pronounced as ‘sh’. Note that when this course quotes from an external source, that source’s preferred way...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...English and science, just as a reminder that if you are working on IT that there are still risks around that. Young people should be helped to understand the need of online safety to be open and honest and discuss the risk and discuss their concerns as well. Adults should also I think show a positive role model when using the internet within their setting and teach them...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...ENGLISH: Myself and my brother started Bremont about 8 years ago, and it came from basically a love of watches, and my father was a big watch collector and also background in aviation, hence aviation watches. So it was a, as young kids we grew up with aviation, flying planes, with my father and workshops. He was an obsessive creator of things and restoring old clocks and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...English national household survey’, BMC public health, 16(1), p. 222. Lepkowska, D. (2017) ‘Talking to vulnerable children on their terms helps to build trust’, The Guardian, 13 October. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/ social-care-network/ 2017/ oct/ 13/ children-social-care-talking-case-approach-trust (Accessed: 14 April 2020). Mason, P. and Prior, D....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs