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Beginners’ French: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ French: food and drink

...course, Beginners' French: food and drink, you will also gain an insight into French societies and cultures through focusing on food and drink. You will listen to French speakers in a variety of situations, and you will be provided with some skills for coping with reading texts...Improve your language skills by learning to communicate more easily and effectively in...
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...course, Creative writing and critical reading, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer’s development at the postgraduate level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers’ methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. Examples will cover the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...course, Teaching mathematics, has been designed for non-specialist mathematics teachers of 8 to 14 year olds, teaching assistants, home schoolers and parents and draws on the established provision of mathematics education at the Open University. It can also be used as Continuing Professional Development by individuals or groups of teachers. The authors have many years’...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...course, Understanding musical scores, provides a general introduction to how to understand a musical score, and insights into what professional musicians do with the notation that these contain. You’ll learn how to connect the notation you see with the music you hear, from short familiar melodies to a full orchestral score...Explore what's involved when musicians create...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...course, Primary education: listening and observing, you will have the chance to look inside primary schools, and watch and listen to children and teaching staff. You’ll also find out what head teachers look for in people who want to work or volunteer in a primary school...Would you like to volunteer or find work in your local primary school? Are you thinking about...
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...course has been developed in response to requests from learners who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that studying a classical language involves. The course will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin and will offer you the opportunity to...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...course, Understanding society: families, you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size...In this free course, Understanding society:...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its study...This free course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs