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Get your free booklet 'A tourist's guide to our secret streets'

Get your free booklet 'A tourist's guide to our secret streets' Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 23 Apr 2013
By The OpenLearn team
Download or order your free 16-page booklet, with folding historic map from Charles Booth and fascinating stories behind the streets in five UK cities
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Different cultures, different childhoods

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 26 Mar 2013
By Dr Heather Montgomery
A 'normal' childhood depends on where you live and when you're born. Heather Montgomery wonders how some common British practices might look to other cultures.
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Language of Poverty

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Introductory Level Updated 06 Mar 2013
By Dr Gerry Mooney, Owen Jones
In this audio, The Open University's Gerry Mooney discusses the language used to describe poverty in the UK with columnist and writer, Owen Jones 
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Themes in discourse research: The case of Diana

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Themes in discourse research: The case of Diana Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Advanced Level Duration 4 hours Updated 19 Jun 2013
By The Open University
This unit introduces some of the main themes and issues in discourse research using Martin Bashir's famous interview with Diana, Princess of Wales as a...
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Reading evidence

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Introductory Level Duration 12 hours Updated 19 Jun 2013
By The Open University
What is active reading? It is reading with the aim of understanding and grasping something. While studying this unit, you will be focusing on the...
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The politics of racial violence in Britain

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Intermediate Level Duration 1 hour Updated 19 Jun 2013
By The Open University
This unit focuses on giving you the skills to identify the criteria to evaluate the politics of racial violence in Britain. The material is an...
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Contemporary Wales

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Introductory Level Duration 150 hours Updated 28 Mar 2013 Register by 16 Aug 2013
By The Open University
Explore what is distinctive about Wales and Welsh identity in terms of culture, society, economy and politics.The course will be extremely useful if you plan...
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Making social worlds

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Advanced Level Duration 600 hours Updated 11 Feb 2012 Register by 05 Sep 2013
By The Open University
Explore how we operate in social worlds and how social experience is shaped and made meaningful. Topics include immigration, medicine, family, money and reality television. ...
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