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MedTech: AI and Medical Robots (FutureLearn)

Explore human robot interaction and enter the fascinating world of robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare. Learn how medical robots in healthcare are designed, regulated and used. On this course, you will learn what robots are and explore human robot interaction (HRI) in healthcare. You will identify the challenges [...]

MedTech: Trends and Product Design (FutureLearn)

Explore the product design process of MedTech devices and examine future trends in healthcare technology and the MedTech industry. Learn how innovative medical devices are designed, produced and regulated. Major advances in technology are driving innovation in healthcare. On this course, you will explore the global landscape of medical [...]

Introduction to Intercultural Studies: The Branding of Culture (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Introduction to Intercultural Studies: The Branding of Culture (FutureLearn)
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Learn how products move across borders and how branding problematically draws on narratives of culture and place. Discover how marketing uses narratives of culture and place. The course examines an aspect of marketing through the ways branding makes use of cultural stereotypes to promote products or places. [...]

Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Crossing Borders (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Crossing Borders (FutureLearn)
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Take a closer look at geographical and cultural borders and understand their effects on people who occupy them or cross them. When thinking of borders, images of division often come to mind. This introductory course will help you learn how borders can both divide and connect territories or [...]

Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Intercultural Contact (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Intercultural Contact (FutureLearn)
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Learn how the principles of intercultural contact may challenge the way in which you think about social interaction. On this course you will examine the idea of intercultural contact and the effects of cultural interactions from historical and global perspectives. Through videos and articles, you will discover how intercultural [...]

Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Defining the Concept of Culture (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Introduction to Intercultural Studies: Defining the Concept of Culture (FutureLearn)
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Understand intercultural communication by learning about the concepts of culture and interculturality. On this course, you’ll explore some of the meanings associated with the term ‘culture’ and examine their problematic nature. You’ll understand the effects of the interaction between cultures, explore the notion of interculturality and problematise the way [...]

Causes of Human Disease: Nutrition and Environment (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Causes of Human Disease: Nutrition and Environment (FutureLearn)
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Explore how nutrition and environmental factors, including lifestyle, influence your chance of developing human disease. On this course you’ll look at the importance of nutrition in human health and explore what happens to the body when it doesn’t receive the right nutrients.

Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Cardiovascular Disease (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Causes of Human Disease: Understanding Cardiovascular Disease (FutureLearn)
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Explore normal cardiovascular function and risk factors associated with heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading global cause of death. On this course, you’ll learn how the cardiovascular system functions and understand common cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke, as well as the [...]

Causes of Human Disease: Exploring Cancer and Genetic Disease (FutureLearn)

Sep 4th 2023
Causes of Human Disease: Exploring Cancer and Genetic Disease (FutureLearn)
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Explore how the unravelling of genetic code has led to a deeper understanding of genetic diseases and cancer. It’s widely known that some diseases run in families. The discovery of the structure of DNA and the unravelling of the genetic code has led to a deeper understanding of such [...]

Causes of Human Disease: Transmitting and Fighting Infection (FutureLearn)

Learn how pathogens cause infectious diseases, how these diseases are transmitted and how our immune system respond to infection. Most of us have experienced common diseases like flu or less common ones like pneumonia. On this course, you’ll learn how pathogens cause infectious diseases and how these diseases are [...]