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Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...English.) Most gamelan music is performed without the aid of notation, yet involves the co-ordination of many parts, which interlock and overlap in a variety of ways. The obvious question is, therefore, how can the members of the group keep together and produce coherent music, without either playing from notation or memorising impossibly large amounts of
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...English schools, Ofsted (the body responsible for the inspection of schools in England) reports that: in too many instances there was insufficient emphasis on active music-making or on the use of musical sound as the dominant language of learning … Put simply … there was not enough music in music lessons. (Ofsted, 2012, p. 4) In this final section, and drawing on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...everyday living. Some may see it as threatening – taking control away from humans and placing it with the computers and machines. How do devices 'talk' to each other? What technologies and processes are involved? What kind of world does it create? These topics, and others, will be explored in this course. We then look at wired and wireless communication technologies,...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...everyday experience: it affects the ability of sweat to evaporate, for example, and the drying of clothes on the line. Averaged over time and around the globe, water vapour represents about 0.5% of the total atmospheric gas. This relatively high abundance makes water vapour the single most important natural greenhouse gas: it contributes about 60% of the surface warming...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...everyday things to setting up life changing support for those in their care, learning disability nurses transform lives, and the UK needs a lot more of them. A lot more people willing to do an amazing job. A lot more people willing to take a different path. So do you value equality and human rights? Do you want to fight injustice? Can you look deeper than the surface? And...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...everyday life...Art and the Mexican Revolution: References - Catlin, S. L. (1986) ‘Mural census’, in Helms, C. N. (ed.) Diego Rivera: A Retrospective, New York and London, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 235–335. Cockcroft. E., Weber, J. P. and Cockcroft, J. (eds) (1977) Toward a People’s Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement, Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...everyday advertisement can be as exciting as those during the Super Bowl. With neuromarketing, we can create strong brand associations that are as beneficial to customers as the brands themselves. Neuromarketing is the reason we think innovation when we think Apple, adventure when we think Patagonia, childhood when we think Cheerios, or happiness when we think Coke. And...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...everyday occurrence for most people, and is part of the way we construct and communicate a personal narrative about who we are and how we feel. As such, a person may be aware of the ups and downs they experience emotionally, and of the thoughts and feelings they find upsetting, uncomfortable or distressing. A person may also be aware that some of their behaviour choices...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs