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The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World
by Professor Havi Dreifuss, PhD , Dr Na'ama Bela Shik, PhD- 4.8
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Approx. 7 hours to complete
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews....
Euro Noir: Transcultural Identities in European Popular Crime Narratives
by Fred Truyen , Jan Baetens , Monica Dall’Asta , Kim Toft Hansen- 0.0
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10 Weeks
Learn how crime novels, films and television dramas can help investigate European cultural identity. The crime genre, arguably the most popular narrative genre in Europe, is an ideal object of study for evaluating how the process of Europeanisation has impacted the forms of cultural production, distribution and reception....
$49
Doing Gender and Why it Matters
by Karen Laidler , Carmen Tong , Puja Kapai- 0.0
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6 Weeks
Drawing from a variety of perspectives – cultural studies, economics, education, law, linguistics, psychology, public health, politics, social policy, and sociology - we begin by questioning meanings of gender in different cultural settings and historical moments. How to explain and apply key theories and concepts relating to historical and contemporary definitions of and perspectives on gender....
$99
The Einstein Revolution
by Peter Galison , Ion Mihailescu- 0.0
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14 Weeks
Participants in the course will follow seventeen lessons, each of which will present a mix of science (no prerequisites!) and the broader, relevant cultural surround. At other times we will be fully engaged with historical and political questions: the building, dropping, and proliferation of nuclear weapons, for example....
$99
Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo
by Shigeru Miyagawa , John W. Dower , James T. Ulak , Hiromu Nagahara- 0.0
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4 Weeks
• cultural and political interactions between east and west; • methods used by scholars and curators of the Visualizing Cultures project and Smithsonian Institution to develop online content and exhibitions; • the ability of visual motifs to capture tangible and intangible qualities of time and place; • woodblock print series, distribution, and competition from other media....
$49
Magic in the Middle Ages
by Godefroid de Callataÿ - University of Louvain , Dr Pau Castell Granados , Sébastien Moureau - University of Louvain , Dr Gemma Pellissa Prades , Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel , Blanca Villuendas- 4.6
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Approx. 9 hours to complete
c) will be capable of distinguishing between popular magic and the magic of the learned people; will have a notion of which spiritual practices were allowed in medieval Europe and which ones were related to the devil, and will be aware of the link between a cultural product and the society that produced it....
Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world
by Patrick Le Galès- 4.4
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Approx. 12 hours to complete
For the time being, given current conditions of capitalism, political, economic, cultural and social questions are increasingly becoming urban questions. The segregated metropolis, race and class, measures and cultural making of boundaries part 1 The segregated metropolis, race and class, measures and cultural making of boundaries part 2 Scott and Storper and the new economic geography...
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Sustainable Tourism: Society & Environmental Aspects
by Dr. Arjaan Pellis , Jonas Skutka- 0.0
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6 Weeks
These include tourism's historical background and a variety of social science approaches will be looked at, with a special focus on the human geography of tourism. You will be exposed to the negative impacts on natural resources, the cultural heritage of host communities and climate change related issues, such as carbon emissions....
$199
The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community
by John Grim , Mary Evelyn Tucker- 4.7
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Approx. 25 hours to complete
Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a historian of world religions and an early voice awakening moral sensibilities to the environmental crisis. He is known for articulating a “new story” of the universe that explores the implications of the evolutionary sciences and cultural traditions for creating a flourishing future. Introduction - Thomas Berry as Cultural Historian...
Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo
by Shigeru Miyagawa , John W. Dower , James T. Ulak , Hiromu Nagahara- 0.0
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6 Weeks
• cultural and political interactions between east and west; • methods used by scholars and curators of the Visualizing Cultures project and Smithsonian Institution to develop online content and exhibitions; • the ability of visual motifs to capture tangible and intangible qualities of time and place; • woodblock print series, distribution, and competition from other media....
$49
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