SET 1 Course Title and Provider Brief Course Description and Link Course Start, Duration and Hours
Brief Course Description and Link
November 7 to 19
FEED YOUR MIND,
MIND YOUR FOOD
All students of Gr. XI-Ss. Luke, Michael,
and Padre Pio join The Right To
Education: Breaking Down The Barriers.
All learners from Gr. XI-Ss. Jude and
Mark, on the other hand, enroll in
Innovation: The Food Industry.
SET 2
November 7 to 19
LEARNING ONLINE
Part of the Going to University
collection of the University of Leeds
online courses, this series will help you
learn the basic skills in using the internet
for academic purposes.
You will forms groups of four (4). Each
member will be assigned a particular
course to work on. Halfway during the University of Leeds, United Kingdom
course, your group will convene. Each of
you members will share how you are
progressing and what you have learned
so far. University of Leeds, United Kingdom
SET 3
November 7 to December 3 or 10
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MIND
This set directs your focus on selected
topics related to philosophy and social
sciences. Students reporting on topics
under Introduction to Philosophy of the
Human Person will take up What is a
Mind? Meanwhile, those assigned with
topics under Disciplines and Ideas in the
Social Sciences will take up Why We
Post: The Anthropology of Social Media.
A paired discussion offline in the second
week of December follows, with a
reflection paper as output.
Course Start, Duration and Hours per Week
THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION: November 7, 2016
BREAKING DOWN THE How can we support those who are marginalised and (Actual start: October 31, 2016)
excluded from education? Does education for all, mean all? Two (2) weeks
BARRIERS
University of Glasgow, United https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/right-to-education (Actual: Three (3) weeks)
Kingdom Six (6) hours per week
Learn how innovation has changed the food industry, the way
INNOVATION: THE FOOD November 7, 2016
we shop and how we manage the global issue of food waste.
INDUSTRY Two (2) weeks
University of Leeds, United Kingdom https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/food-innovation Two (2) hours per week
Reflect on how you want to present yourself online and take
LEARNING ONLINE: November 7, 2016
MANAGING YOUR IDENTITY positive steps towards these goals. Two (2) weeks
University of Leeds, United Kingdom https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/online-identity Two (2) hours per week
LEARNING ONLINE: Become an effective online learner and develop your online November 7, 2016
LEARNING AND communication skills when working with others. Two (2) weeks
COLLABORATING
University of Leeds, United Kingdom https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-and-collaborating Two (2) hours per week
LEARNING ONLINE: Get the most out of online learning by reflecting and sharing November 7, 2016
your learning with others.
REFLECTING AND SHARING Two (2) weeks
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/reflecting-and-sharing Two (2) hours per week
LEARNING ONLINE: Improve your online research skills and your ability to November 7, 2016
SEARCHING AND critically analyse sources of information. Two (2) weeks
RESEARCHING
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/searching-and-researching Two (2) hours per week
November 7, 2016
WHY WE POST: THE Discover the varying uses of social media around the world
ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOCIAL and its consequences for politics, relationships and everyday (Actual start: October 31, 2016)
MEDIA life. Four (4) weeks
University College London, (Actual: Five (5) weeks)
United Kingdom https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media Three hours and 45 minutes per week
November 7, 2016
WHAT IS A MIND? Explore the most pertinent scientific and philosophical (Actual start: October 31, 2016)
University of Cape Town, concepts for understanding our own minds. Five (5) weeks
South Africa (Actual: Six (6) weeks)
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/what-is-a-mind
Three hours and 40 minutes per week
SET 4 Course Title and Provider Brief Course Description and Link Course Start, Duration and Hours per Week
January 2 or 9; end dates vary BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS: Gain a practical grounding in communication to boost your
THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL EFFECTIVE personal effectiveness, save you time and reduce your stress January 9, 2017
With the goal to help you and your peers COMMUNICATION levels. Four (4) weeks
become well-rounded persons in mind, The Open University, Three (3) hours per week
United Kingdom https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/effective-communication
this set will help you take a closer look at
life, understand its challenges, and find THE POLITICS AND Make sense of eating and drinking in national and
possible solutions from the perspectives DIPLOMACY OF COOKING international relations from preparing food to seating and January 2, 2017
of varying disciplines. Short basic courses AND HOSPITALITY serving guests. Five (5) weeks
on topics in hospitality management, life Grenoble Ecole de Management, Four (4) hours per week
France https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/geopolitics-hospitality
and health sciences, Oriental philosophy,
business communication, finance, and GLOBAL RESOURCE
POLITICS: THE PAST, Understand the critical energy challenges the world faces and January 9, 2017
international politics and economics take
PRESENT AND FUTURE OF analyse the political economy of the global energy industry. Six (6) weeks
the stage here.
OIL, GAS AND SHALE https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/global-resource-politics Three (3) hours per week
Your section will be clustered into groups Hanyang University, South Korea
of six (6). Each group member will be CANCER IN THE 21ST Discover how genetics is revolutionising the detection and
assigned a different course. In the second CENTURY: THE GENOMIC January 9, 2017
treatment of cancer.
half of January, group members will meet REVOLUTION Six (6) weeks
and film a forty-minute talk show University of Glasgow, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/cancer-and-the-genomic- Four (4) hours per week
simulation where they would share what United Kingdom revolution
they have been learning from their
FINANCE FUNDAMENTALS: With household budgets feeling the pinch, this course shows
respective courses, how they would
FINANCIAL PLANNING AND how to bring order to your finances and make good financial January 9, 2017
adapt it to their local and personal
contexts, etc. In addition, the group will BUDGETING decisions. Four (4) weeks
create a brief infomercial based on a The Open University, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/personal-financial-planning- Three (3) hours per week
selected course from those taken. United Kingdom and-budgeting
Outputs, which will be due at the end of
TAOISM AND WESTERN Learn the fundamentals of Taoism and how they are applied. January 2, 2017
the first week of February, will be the
CULTURE Four (4) weeks
bases for most points in the semi-final https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/taoism-and-western-culture
DeTao Masters Academy, China Two (2) hours per week
examination.
SET 5 (recommended)
November 7 onwards for 'Multilingual Learning
MULTILINGUAL LEARNING Explore multilingual education and how it can impact and
Dates for 'Social Enterprise TBA FOR A GLOBALISED WORLD improve education and even wider society. November 7, 2016
University of Glasgow,
REMEMBER THE FUTURE United Kingdom https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/multilingual
Though optional, taking these courses
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE:
during the holiday break or the summer
TURNING IDEAS INTO
vacation can be a good preparation for Learn how to turn your social enterprise ideas into action.
Understanding Society, Culture, and ACTION TBA (to be announced), check the site
Middlesex University https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/social-enterprise-idea-action
Politics (core) and Applied Economics Business School,
(specialized), GA strand subjects in Gr. XII. United Kingdom