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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...economic prosperity but its cultural identity, making fifteenth-century Venice one of the most culturally diverse cities in Europe, a fact clearly depicted in many Venetian paintings. This course reviews some aspects of the social and cultural diversity of fifteenth-century Venice and how they affected the city’s art. In particular it focuses on Venice’s relations...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...economic benefits and improves health. Education is a widely accepted humanitarian obligation and an internationally mandated human right. These claims are neither controversial nor new. (Cohen, Bloom & Malin, 2006 p. v) However, despite such claims, delivering education based on equality for all people is neither universal nor historically significant, and it continues...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...economic uncertainty around. Since the pandemic, the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) have continued to prioritise proposals from healthcare; biotech, life sciences and pharmaceuticals; and software as a service (British Business Bank, 2020b). [A chart that shows the share of enterprises between small, medium and large businesses.] Figure 2 Share of enterprises The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...economics, making it really clear that we are only going to solve climate change if we have new forms of development in countries in the South, so that’s exactly where the emphasis needs to go and the great global think tank, the IEA, is not looking there. Perhaps it’s time for a new mission for it? JS: I don’t really think that you can push institutions too far...
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Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...economic status, parental interest in sport and physical activity, and the family structure. We will discuss some of these factors in more detail later in the course, however the overarching principle indicated by the Sports Coach UK Review is that ‘those who have family members involved in sport are more likely to be involved themselves’ (Bailey et al., 2010, p. 79)....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...economic – will the country be in recession, or booming? What will interest rates be? market – how will your product market develop? Will there be new entrants, leavers or substitutes? As decision-makers, you need to find strategies to deal with uncertainty and so, in this section, you will be introduced to the topic of probability. A knowledge of probability enables...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...economic and intellectual trends. It is important to have an awareness of historical trends and how they inform current social work practice. Examining the ways in which attitudes toward children change and how these changes come to be reflected (or not) in legislation and public policy is a part of that understanding. Legislation relating to children and families arose...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...economic immigrants with no formal right to be on the EU territory, or as victims of traffickers. But moving in numbers to the EU is not seen as a political action. It is illegitimate practice that needs policing, even with the military intervening. There are thus different modes of mobilising, some mobilisation is seen as legitimate and/or political while other is seen...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs