Developing and sustaining a strong relationship can be both challenging and rewarding. Whether professional, business or personal, relationships can provide support and satisfaction. At other times they can also be a source of distress and dissatisfaction. Led by an experienced practitioner, these workshops are designed to improve your understanding of how we relate to each other and help you discover what it takes to connect, enhance and sustain your relationships with others. Draw... [More]

We can usefully understand a given society in terms of its characteristic visions of ultimate reality. What, as shown both by its philosophical preoccupations and its socially valued activities (its economic relations, its sacred rituals, its art), is its basic vision of what truly is? In this course we turn the spotlight on western culture. We familiarise ourselves with some of the major philosophical issues involved in contending views of the ultimately real. We consider how in di... [More]

Developing and sustaining a strong relationship can be both challenging and rewarding. Whether professional, business or personal, relationships can provide support and satisfaction. At other times they can also be a source of distress and dissatisfaction. Led by an experienced practitioner, these workshops are designed to improve your understanding of how we relate to each other and help you discover what it takes to connect, enhance and sustain your relationships with others. Draw... [More]

Developing and sustaining a strong relationship can be both challenging and rewarding. Whether professional, business or personal, relationships can provide support and satisfaction. At other times they can also be a source of distress and dissatisfaction. Led by an experienced practitioner, these workshops are designed to improve your understanding of how we relate to each other and help you discover what it takes to connect, enhance and sustain your relationships with others. Draw... [More]

This course will provide a forum for discussion about the ways that technologies such as social networking sites and instant messaging have changed the ways that people conduct and enact their day-to-day friendships. The aim of the course will be to use sociological theories in order to consider: 1. the role of the individual as a friend to others; 2. how the individual perceives and constructs others as friends; 3. and to compare and contrast friendship face to face with friendship... [More]