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Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...attention to Western staff notation while also considering Arab and Sundanese notation. You will have opportunities to read and write notes and to sing and play short musical extracts with the help of staff notation. You will get the most out of this course if you can study it with the help of a keyboard instrument. Even a basic 49-key electronic keyboard will allow you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...attention to the pause or slowdown in warming, whatever it’s called. I think you do accept now that a pause or slowdown will end and climate will continue to warm. I think you do accept that, is that right? BP: Well, we are not prophets, you are the prophet. We don’t know whether it’s going to end – RH: No, I’m not a prophet, I’m asking your point of view as...
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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...attention to something that someone doesn’t know about, then sometimes civil disobedience is a good tool. When we started the civil disobedience campaign against the Keystone Pipeline, no one in this country had ever heard of it; by the time we were done, pretty much everybody had heard of it: it had become the iconic environmental fight of our time in the United...
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Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...attention to the ‘subtler’ emotions – the emotions elicited by the aesthetic properties of a work of art, the intellectual qualities of a mathematical proof, or the moral qualities of another person. Activity 5 Read the extract from James's chapter (Reading 1). Click to open William James's chapter What does James believe to be our ‘natural way of thinking’...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...attention must be given to the younger generation and their experience of ageing. Our behaviours and circumstances in earlier periods of our life can influence our health and wellbeing in later life. A good example is the influence that globalisation is having on our lifestyles. Globalisation has resulted in a greater availability of products like tobacco and fast food,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...attention, you say: Scusi! Excuse me! When the person serving adds up the order to check that they have got it right, they usually begin with: Allora... So... You might also hear customers say buongiorno (‘good morning’) or buonasera (‘good afternoon/evening’) before they place their order...Week 2: Ordering at the bar: 6 Vocabulary practice - Now see if you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...attention especially in relation to whether it can support learning, often labelled as ‘game-based learning’. Digital games are virtual spaces that can support interactive or experiential learning experiences as well as learning through problem-solving, failure, error and recovery. This type of learning has a unique value especially when compared to less interactive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...attention to Bagnall’s account of the historical library, and the evidence he uses. What kind of picture of the library does he build up? Are you surprised by any of it? Discussion Bagnall’s article is an uncompromising and valuable account of the troubling gap between the popular image of the library of Alexandria and the limited reliable evidence that we actually...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs