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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...social construction. Yet we know that in our contemporary world and in history, this construction has real consequences. From enslavement and colonisation to resistance and revolution, the stories of people of colour are often left untold in accounts of the past. This free course, Historical perspectives on race, will introduce you to ideas and scholarship dealing with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...social activism. [Neil Young playing Mainz in 2014] Neil Young in 2014 Professor Martin Halliwell from the University of Leicester’s Centre for American Studies has just published Neil Young: American Traveller, the first book to systematically focus on the importance of place and travel in the songwriter’s music, films, memoirs, and social activism. The book claims...
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Article 5 mins
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...social media in the lives of young people are frequently discussed. One topic that gets less of an airing is teens’ exposure to extensive marketing and advertising in digital media. Should this be a concern? Aren’t young people sensible enough to be aware of what ads are trying to do – and savvy enough to know how to ignore them? The World Health Organization has...
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Article 5 mins
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...worked on the undergraduate courses Environment: journeys through a changing world (U116, Block 3: Nile Limits), Environment: sharing a dynamic planet (DST206) and Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context (DU311). Part 2 of Coping on the Coast will draw upon aspects of Dr Wadsley's research on 'Sounding Coastal Change', an AHRC-funded project...
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Video 15 mins
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...work your way through this course, you will have the chance to participate in both reading and writing activities and experience for yourself what happens to you when you read....What happens to you when you read?: Introduction - Reading as a form of entertainment has a long history. Not only does a good book entertain us though, it can be an activity that brings us...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably?
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably?

...social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair Designs don’t just have utilitarian or aesthetic functions they can also have economic, social and political ones. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses examples of designs that are driven by social responsibility. Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair By the end of the 60s, modernist principles...
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Video 25 mins
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...social interest, or as part of an online community. Of course, you might have already used them as part of an online course for school, college, work or university. For instance, most Open University courses and modules use online learning forums where learners can share experiences and ideas, raise questions and work on course tasks. 2. How do you feel about using an...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...social composition, its historical legacy, and its role in a changing national economic pattern. Synthesis The way in which places retain their uniqueness within wider systems of interdependence is an important methodological issue within geography and is approached through the method of synthesis. This is a way of explaining: how the different elements of society are...
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Activity 5 mins