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The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...central to understanding any industry, including football. Now listen to the BBC radio programme clip ‘FIFA, Football, Power and Politics’ which charts the rise of FIFA as a powerful organisation in football. As you listen, note the different ways in which the former head of FIFA, Brazilian João Havelange, worked to raise the profile and global reach of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...central features of song-writing through the nineteenth century into the twentieth. One could go so far as to say that the modern popular love-song, from American writers of the 1920s and 1930s such as Cole Porter and George Gershwin through to rock and pop songs of the twenty-first century, are later developments from this intense fusion of poetry and music that was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...Central and South America; they comprise two related families. Apes (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos) and humans are the subject of course S182_10, so I will say little about them here. As DA points out in LoM p. 272, apart from humans, very few primates are found 'outside the tropics', i.e. the zone around the Equator between the Tropics of Cancer...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...central to criminological research: the development of the victim survey, first in the USA and then in Britain, has been crucial Sparks and others (1977) uncovered hidden or non-reported crime and ascertained people's perceptions of crime and the Criminal Justice System, thus setting the agenda for various surveys [Described image] Figure 7 Translation: the government...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...central railway station in Hamburg...Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German: 1.1 Spoken introductions - In this first activity, you will start by listening to some spoken German. Activity 1 Listen to these people introducing themselves, then list the speakers in order of introduction. Mein Name ist Henning Haarhaus. Ich heiβe Wolf Schmidt. Ich bin Stefanie...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...central element may reside in a single idea or image, as with the following: Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord O fan of white silk, clear as frost on the grass-blade, You also are laid aside. (Ezra Pound) Great emotion is wrapped inside the formal diction of this poem. We may surmise that the fan was given by the Imperial Lord to an ex-mistress, now cast aside. Even a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...central Europe, which refers to a range of subdisciplines including music psychology, acoustics, music theory, and the philosophy of music. Complicating matters further, the word ‘musicology’ is often used as a shortened form of ‘historical musicology’. You may find it useful, as you work through the course, to think about the differences between the approaches...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...central questions: What is race? What is racism? Along the way, you will consider what the term ‘race’ means, you will critically examine the role of ancestry and power in determining someone’s race, and you will explore the idea of racial fetishes. You will also encounter the philosophical tools of thought experiments and representing argument structure. Note: This...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs