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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...writing and performing their own original material. On the genre hierarchy between pop and rock, Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy have commented that: Rock, as a term, was coined to differentiate the music and attitudes of both performer and audience from the ‘pop’ and ‘commercial’ form. This rock/pop binarism can be viewed as a false bifurcation on a number of levels...
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...writing books and teaching materials for practitioners in the school sector, or involvement in large national research projects. (adapted Murray, 2008) Across all of Murray’s points it is possible to identify the common thread of knowledge creation, dissemination and questioning. For her, a tutor is someone who is at all times aware of the assumptions, beliefs and...
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...writing histories of empire is bound up with the lasting power structures it left behind. The archives and maps of empire – our tools for understanding – were produced partly through the practices of imperialism. How these records and the knowledge they produced are understood, critiqued, and interpreted has changed over time. In this session you will be introduced to...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...write down a sum giving the total mass M of Jupiter in terms of the masses of its four layers, M1, M2, M3 and M4. Answer cap m equals sum with, 4 , summands cap m sub one plus cap m sub two plus cap m sub three plus cap m sub four Write down an expression for the volume of Jupiter in terms of its radius, RJ. Answer volume equation left hand side equals right hand side...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Write down the pluses and the negatives. Plan for the worst. Hope for the best. Don’t then, once you’ve made your decision, if it goes wrong, sit there and think, I made a bad decision. If you did everything you possibly could knowing what you could, you didn’t make a bad decision. You had a bad outcome. And you mustn’t confuse the two. We can’t always get it...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...write a blog to make myself speak to people. I put it online. And the amount of support I got from people that I didn't know. The hockey family was incredible. But also another thing that I was hoping I would get from it was the support of my teammates. Which I knew they would anyway, but for them to support you, I knew I needed to give something. And with me opening up...
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...write contracts for the various agreements. There may be other industries that work in the same way and for which the power factors featured above might apply...Week 1: The value of film: 4 Week 1 quiz - If you'd like to test and apply your knowledge of the material in Week 1 with a few questions, click the link below. Note: this is not a requirement in order to continue...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Write down the main ways in which you think human language and the call system of the vervet monkey might differ. Keep this list with you and compare it with the differences mentioned in the text as you go through the first half of this course. This course is in two parts. In the first half (Section 2), we will investigate the nature and structure of human language,...