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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news. (Austen, 1813, p. 3) Compare this with the opening of the final chapter of Pride and Prejudice: Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley and talked of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...business terms, it is good practice to make a product available to as wide a market as possible. A design that incorporates the requirements for disabled students is likely to be more accessible and useful for non-disabled students than a design without such consideration. To design something (eLearning materials, for example) with the needs of disabled people in mind is...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...busy restaurant. The customers are trying to attract the waiter’s attention. What does each group want? Group 5 This group wants a table they have reserved Group 3 This group wants to attract the waiter's attention Group 1 This group wants the menu Group 2 This group wants to order Group 4 This group wants to pay Group 6 This group wants to query the bill Two lists...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...busy working on this theme. Other than that, there's not a lot we have to go on. We do know that Goya went to Italy, staying in Pama and Rome, and in doing so availed himself of the ideal grounding for an eighteenth century artist. This kind of training would serve as a n ideal preparation for work in the Royal Palaces, whose staff he was trying to join through a network...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...busy to tidy her garden, I know she is working hard, something I don’t need to worry about anymore. God, I’m glad those days are behind me. I’d prayed for redundancy for months and just four weeks ago it had finally come. I knock and the dogs start barking. When she opens the door, she looks older than I remembered. She isn’t wearing any make up. She might be thin...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...money they have to spend on shelter. My heart sags every time it senses the approach of those flat, numbing boxes that prickle the edges of every British town. Hanley, 2007, pp. 4, 5 [Described image] Copyright © Raymond Kleboe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images © Copyright © Raymond Kleboe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Figure 6 Council housing was much in demand in the 1950s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...money on water bills to my house, and in the hope that it would also provide encouragement for me to use less water (it has). For 2003 I used a metered 64m3 of water at £1.13 per m3, which cost £1.13 × 64 = £72.32. My house is connected to a sewer. I knew the answer to part of this — that my village has its own small sewage works for primary and secondary treatment...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...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...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs