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Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...attention which it attracts. It’s beautifully proportioned and its sculptures are exquisite and extraordinarily detailed. At the time it was built it was the largest temple in Greece and in its design and execution shows an amazing mixture of traditional elements, but also innovation. Paula James voice-over Perhaps the most famous and certainly the most controversial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...attention to different roles and perspectives; Rosalind dominates, but she doesn’t tyrannise. Her tutorial in love is simultaneously categorical (‘the sky changes when they are wives’) and capricious (‘I knew what you would prove – my friends told me as much’); it is a complex act of flirtation that aims to educate and captivate Orlando, while doing the same...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...attention to how musical sounds are distributed over time, and their relationship with pulse, tempo and metre. These relationships and the patterns of varying different lengths of sound, known as rhythm, help to characterise the music. Activity 5 Listen to a well-known rhythmic pattern from the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. As you do try to identify the...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...Attention, les films utilisent leurs noms internationaux, qui peuvent être différents en français. Read the three biographies below and using the information provided, match the films with their directors. Note that the films use their international names, which might not be a direct translation from the French. [Described image] Figure 7 Bande de filles, Divines,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...attention to what they mean in reality … (Chauhan, 2007, p. 233) In the audio-visual material that you will be looking at as part of this course, partnership working is referred to as ‘working across agencies’. In some cases, people have specific ideas about the differences between different terms. For example: Inter-agency working usually refers to arrangements...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...attention to Cuba, Spain, Uruguay and Argentina. The course looks at the international context in the late 1960s when protest songs emerged, for example, in Cuba with the Nueva Trova movement. You will also look at one of the Nueva Trova’s songs and learn about other songwriters behind the movement and their songs, such as Te recuerdo, Amanda by Víctor Jara from Chile...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...attention to two-tailed t-tests. Microsoft Excel continues to support your statistical analysis needs by offering a function that enables you to calculate p-values for two-tailed t-tests efficiently. This type of test broadens your analytical capabilities, as you will find it particularly useful when you need to determine whether a sample mean differs significantly from a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...attention on areas that need more development to ensure progress. More importantly, by submitting work that you have produced fairly and in accordance with good academic practices, your tutor can give you accurate feedback and help with your specific learning needs and abilities; this form of individual and personalised support is the best form of teaching anyone could...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs