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Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...analysis, as it is called in shorthand, is a fundamental skill in Classical Studies. The results of source analysis can then be organised into a discussion and argument to communicate your knowledge and understanding. This course doesn't actually give you the opportunity to do the communicating, but the case study within the text that you have just read did provide an...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...analysis, which traces all the environmental impacts of a product – from the extraction and processing of raw materials through to manufacture and delivery of the product, its use and what happens at the end of its life. For petrol- and diesel-engine cars, the energy consumed in use can be less than 20% of the total life cycle energy use (Rosendfeld et al., 2019)....
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...analysis...The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK: 1 The changing position of women in the home and workplace - How, when and why did women get the vote? Your work on the suffragettes later in this course will help to answer these questions, but first it is important to reflect on the pre-history of the campaign. Prior to the later eighteenth century (about...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...analysis of Thomas More. Indeed, Greenblatt’s work in the 1980s and 1990s marks a time when the study of images was becoming more common within disciplines outside art history, and when textual–visual relationships were adopted as a concern of cultural studies generally...Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael: 2 Raphael, prince of painters - Following the...
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...analysis for yourself. Activity 11 Study Figure 19 below; the text and the illustration are on two facing pages in Anthony Browne’s picturebook version of Hansel and Gretel (1981). As you observe details, make a note of the following: What details do you notice in terms of Moebius’s codes listed above? How might these details be significant for the story? Don’t...
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...analysis of the end of the song. Have a look at the table and notice how, after the instrumental interlude at 02:01, the chorus is repeated three more times in succession, sometimes with slightly different words. This is not unusual: pop songs typically begin with an orderly alternation of verses and choruses, but have a freer structure after the halfway point. The...
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...analysis of narrative and poetic language and apply technical analytical terms engage in comparative work, draw general conclusions and use textual evidence to argue a case understand and use academic conventions: referencing and bibliography...Approaching prose fiction: 1 Why do we read prose fiction? - Prose fiction, whether in the form of the novel or the short story,...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...analysis of what has gone wrong the members of the group, as representatives of their departments or subgroups, may adopt generally defensive postures. Once defensiveness has been established as the group dynamic, it will be virtually impossible to establish the sort of cooperative and free-wheeling dynamic that is required in a creative group. There will be a tendency...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs