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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...du Val, and all the other popular thieves’ novels, as well as the Newgate Calendar and Lives of the Robbers and Pirates. Those who could not read themselves, said they’d had Jack Sheppard read to them at the lodging houses. Numbers avowed that they had been induced to resort to an abandoned course of life from reading the lives of notorious thieves, and novels about...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...Français-de-souche (white-Catholic-French) and those of color, primarily “new” immigrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa’ (Orlando, 2003, p. 395), many of whom are Muslim, impoverished and live in banlieue neighbourhoods. Large-scale development of the banlieue began in the 1960s, resettling both working-class populations moving from inner-city areas and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...du Gard, a beautiful Roman bridge in the south of France; a disposable ballpoint pen; muskets; and the plant for making the chemical ammonia. This set will enlighten us concerning varied aspects of engineers' practice. Apart from their intrinsic interest, the four case studies demonstrate the distinction between one-off engineering solutions and mass-produced...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru
Money & Business

Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru

...DU. Er mwyn cymharu mae gan Gaerdydd 2,482 o bobl fesul km sgwâr. Mae enillion wythnosol cyfartalog y rhai sy'n byw mewn ardaloedd gwledig fel Powys yn is na chyfartaledd cenedlaethol Cymru. Ynys Môn a Chonwy sydd â'r nifer uchaf o drigolion sydd wedi ymddeol, sy'n economaidd anweithgar yng Nghymru. Mae Cynllun Datblygu Gwledig (CDG) Cymru ar gyfer 2009-2013 yn...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühen?’ is that the speaker is a German officer, so Grice would not be committed to saying that this is what the utterance means. Moreover, Grice's attempt to define the meaning of utterances in terms of the individual speaker's psychological states would still be on track. The weakened condition, unlike Searle's condition, is couched in...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol

...openlearn-cymru-ewch-ach-dysgu-ymhellach cynnwys astudio cysylltiedig gan y Brifysgol Agored http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content y pwnc hwn a deunyddiau'r cwrs, sydd am ddim, ar OpenLearn http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ astudio o'r tu allan i'r DU? Mae gennym fyfyrwyr mewn dros gant o wledydd sy'n astudio cymwysterau ar-lein. http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...Du Mont, c.1920, advertising poster, 106 × 76 cm. The Roman Forum was another important site for Grand Tourists, and remains so today. In what follows, you’ll consider what writers actually do (their creative practices or processes, if you will), and observe one example of how a writer might engage with the ideas that lay behind the Grand Tour by connecting their own...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races”’ by Chike Jeffers. Read it through slowly and carefully. You may need to read it through again as you answer the questions below. What it means to be a black person, for many of us, including myself, can never be exhausted through reference to problems of stigmatization, discrimination, marginalization, and disadvantage, as...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs