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OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War One

OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War One Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 16 May 2013
By The Timewatch team
Michael Palin joins the Timewatch team to discover why troops were still dying after the peace had been signed.
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Star Trek and the Greeks

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Introductory Level Updated 08 May 2013
By Tony Keen
Like many science fiction series, Star Trek in all its incarnations has drawn upon human history
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Design in a nutshell

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Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 08 May 2013
By Clive Hilton
Get the lowdown on 6 key design movements and share your design alter-ego
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Regina Jonas: the first female rabbi

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Advanced Level Duration 35 mins Updated 13 Feb 2013
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Regina Jonas (1902-1944), who is now widely recognised as the world’s first female rabbi, was ordained in Nazi Germany in 1935.
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English in the world today

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Introductory Level Duration 8 hours Updated 22 May 2013
By The Open University
How did English become the global force it is today? This unit explores the state and status of English in the world. It looks at...
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Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

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Advanced Level Duration 20 hours Updated 22 May 2013
By The Open University
The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in units AA314_1 and AA314_2. Now you will use Beethoven's...
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Renaissance art reconsidered

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Advanced Level Duration 600 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
By The Open University
Renaissance art wasn’t just confined to Italy, as traditional courses would have it… discover new social, geographical and subject areas where its influence was felt.The...
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Making sense of the arts

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Introductory Level Duration 150 hours Updated 13 May 2013 Register by 14 Oct 2013
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Explore some of the key ideas and ways of thinking about the arts – including poetry, history, and art history – while developing your study...
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The art history residential school

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Intermediate Level Duration 150 hours Updated 12 May 2013 Register by 09 May 2014
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This art history residential school equips you to interpret artworks in an informed and critical manner, with guided visits to major London museums and galleries.The...
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