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Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...business of articulating the words too, you should be in a good position to discriminate between the rapidity of the flies and the heavier movement of the bees, and to notice how tactile the language is. The effect is actually to create sensuality in the stanza. (b) Notice that though we begin with flies, bees and rooks, all of which are fairly common flying creatures, we...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...business lunches: Spaniards are very particular about food and wine, and business deals are often made over lunch or dinner in a restaurant. Chatting together after a meal is known as estar de sobremesa. B Listen to the short dialogues on the following audio track and decide which are initiated by the customer and which by the waiter. Escucha y decide. What are these...
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...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 8 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...business, and before they ever put pen to paper, writers are themselves, readers. Studying the recorded evidence of a famous writer’s reading can offer us wonderful insights into his or her intellectual development through time. By gathering together responses to reading, we can begin to piece together the pathways of both influence and resistance through the act of...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Now you have mapped out your available time for study, it is worth considering how to ensure you make the most of it in order to learn as effectively as possible. One of the things that many students tell us is that they worry about being distracted in the...
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...business of child-rearing in the hope that they will then do more later on as well. There are a whole range of ways that social policy underpins women’s citizenship and it goes back to T. H. Marshall’s notion of the Political, Civil and Social Rights and of course social policy is quintessential about the social rights, but those three sets of rights aren’t separate...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...business institutions, there was much more difficulty to come by funding than it was for some of our colleagues engaged in mainstream criminology. So I think these were the two contexts which led us to the book and the article. Dr. Deborah Drake Great. In the article and the related book chapter, you cover a number of challenges associated with researching crimes of the...
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...business, and improving information about individual workers would help remove statistical discrimination, so that firms did not need to use stereotypes based on group characteristics in deciding whom to employ. Institutional economists, on the other hand, believe that the causes of labour market disadvantage are structural, built into the institutions of the economy,...