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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...English syntax, just as Example 7b makes no sense within the harmonic language of the late eighteenth century. Most musicians would reduce this instinctively, on the basis that one version sounds right and the other sounds wrong. However, there are objective criteria for the reduction, namely the criteria of consonance and dissonance. In Mozart's style, dissonances make...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...English chemist, physicist and meteorologist John Dalton that atoms became part of modern science; even in 1900 there were eminent scientists who did not believe that atoms are real. However, between 1900 and 1920 phenomena as varied as the motion of pollen grains in water, diffusion in liquids, radioactivity and the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, all gave similar...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...everyday events or activities; difficulty controlling worry, difficulty relaxing, sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, irritability, procrastination. Worry interferes with everyday life. Social anxiety Persistent fear of social or performance situations (e.g. dating, public speaking); intense fear of negative evaluation by others; fear of being humiliated or...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...everyday practice, so that getting educators to share their content in learning object repositories proved to be a barrier. Unlike sharing research findings in published journals, or sharing teaching resources informally within an institution, there was no real incentive or established practice for sharing teaching material on this scale. And, as Brian Lamb points out,...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...everyday experience. I am sure you have used scissors, saws, files, chisels or even sandpaper at some time in order to remove unwanted material. These are all mechanical methods where a force is applied through the cutting tool (whether it is the grit in sandpaper or the metal edge of a saw) to the material, and a cut is made on a macroscopic or microscopic scale. Cutting...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...everyday sense, the short answer is, ‘no’. As you will probably already appreciate, there is a considerable overlap between institutions and organisations. Organisations can become institutions as they become established and recognised as standing for something more than themselves; they come to embody and express important social norms and values. This can perhaps be...
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...everyday lives. You will look at the issue of flooding, a problem with a long history but becoming increasingly important globally because of the impact of climate change. Using economic theory, you will explore why market forces alone typically cannot resolve the problems associated with flooding, creating a rationale for government intervention. You will then see how a...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...everyday speech, for example ‘education system’ or ‘transport system’. This everyday usage can lead to misunderstanding and conflict because different stakeholders will make different boundary judgements based on their different experiences. This is the same as saying that one person’s education system will be different to another’s. Conflict and confusion...