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Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...concept of a canon of artistic masterpieces first developed in literature and was then applied to music. The musical canon developed in the nineteenth century – a time when women had very few rights and were largely excluded from public life – and focused exclusively on male composers, such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...concept of a compact active galactic nucleus as a unifying model for the observed features of several types of active galaxy. It also develops the key skill of applying arithmetic and simple algebra to solving scientific problems. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S282 Astronomy...Introduction to active galaxies: Learning outcomes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...concept of a distinct molecular formula is redundant with most commercial polymers since chain lengths are very variable even within a single sample, but the idea of branching is important for polyethylene in particular. Exercise 5 Calculate the molecular mass of a polystyrene chain molecule of degree of polymerization 500 using Table 3 for your calculation. Answer From...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...concept of intercultural encounters. [Described image] Figure 2 Professor Mike Byram Activity 7 Listen to ‘Interview with Mike Byram’. As you listen, think about the following question and write your answer in the box: How does Mike Byram define an intercultural encounter? Mike Byram: An intercultural encounter can be any situation where someone finds themself...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...concept of ‘necropolitics’. The term was devised by Achille Mbembe (2019) as a way of describing power that determines how certain groups of people are made more deserving of being alive than others. Mbembe’s case is that certain people are identified by those in power as scapegoats for a society’s problems, and are dehumanised, marked as less deserving of life....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...concepts such as the ‘Third World’, the global South is commonly held to refer to ‘to countries classified by the World Bank as low or middle income that are located in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean’ (Clarke, 2018). In other words, developing nations. China is a very powerful and increasingly wealthy country with many large international...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...conception to the age of two is a time of rapid growth, when little brains are growing and developing. Our brains are shaped by the experiences we have in those early years and our parents and other caregivers around us. These early experiences lay the foundations for the rest of our lives, so providing the right support at this stage is vital in supporting the wellbeing...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...concept of the variability of stock prices (measured either by the standard deviation, or the beta of the returns of the stock or portfolio) as the definition of risk in the context of portfolio theory. We now extend this into a more comprehensive definition. The word ‘risk’ is thought to derive either from the Arabic word rizq or the Latin word risicum (Kedar, 1969,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs