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Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...busy market town with a developing quarrying and mining industry. You can ‘see’ the impact of this industrial activity on the town margins and surrounding countryside. You are reading a description of industrial and environmental change in action. You can also learn quite a lot about Chesterfield’s economy from Fiennes’ description. As you can see from this...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...busy. LISA GOURLEY: I think it's been positive for Olive, but also for her family and her friends to watch as well. Three months earlier, we thought she was going to have to go into a nursing home, which-- her potential wouldn't have been met because people would have been doing for her rather than showing her what to do. So it's been a really good experience. Video 2...
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...business. In most cases I did, I found that … there's never a bully who does anything by themselves, there's always a friend who is, the friends are more threatening than actually the bully. And if you actually collar them by themselves, the bully, they eventually become very, very vulnerable and it's, that's when, that's how we basically approach them. You do not...
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...busy to pay her much attention. She longs for a gorilla; when given a toy one, it comes to life and takes her off on a series of nocturnal adventures, bringing warmth and security into her life. Her relationship with her father also improves as a result. Activity 10 Part 1 The illustration below is from Anthony Browne’s book Gorilla, and shows the central character,...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...business into politics. He was up against arguably one of the most credentialed and qualified candidates in presidential electoral history in Hilary Clinton but that didn’t seem to matter. What mattered was the emotional connection he made with a sufficiency of people that leads to win the electoral college, and that was a milestone I think in this whole process. GEOFF...
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...business of proof which has been mentioned. Rabbi Goldsmith, you talked about the Old Testament and the Scriptures being part of the history of the evidence that is gathered, passed down from generation to generation. How important is it to the three believers around the table that you have these books, the Koran, the Old Testament, the New Testament? Mark Goldsmith Well,...
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...business and receive guests. Activity 5 Timing: Allow around 20 minutes for this activity Consider the passage below (Odyssey 1.325–336), in which the poet describes Penelope for the first time. Read it through once without making notes. Explanatory notes on the text: Achaeans is one of several names which Homer uses to refer to the Greeks who fought at Troy. Pallas is...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs