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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996). Current students should look at DTS206's block on food, which addresses the question of affluent diets and its effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
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Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...students don’t understand what you’re saying, you might repeat it or reword it – or say it more loudly! Generally, there are a number of things you might do when you are not understood. You might speak more loudly or more slowly; you might try repeating or rewording what you said; you might ask your listener if they understood you. Sometimes you might even try...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...become ‘everybody’s business’ and is undertaken by a wide range of people, not just in the health sector but in other sectors too. It is both ‘multi-professional’ – involving professionals such as police, teachers, housing officers as well as health workers – and ‘inter-sectoral’ – involving different government departments, local government, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...students considering the residential school for the SXR260 The geological history of the British Isles course, based in the north of England. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Science...Geological processes in the British Isles: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: summarise and identify descriptions of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...become general among the whole population. For example, in English the letter r is still written after vowels, but no longer pronounced by most speakers in central and southern England in words such as for, farm, car, cart, potter, and so on. This change is gradually spreading through the dialects of English, as younger speakers in the north adopt pronunciations without...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...OU student already mentioned) might have completed the table. Discussion Our communication skills, or lack of them, can have more effect than we might think. Reflecting on what you reveal about yourself can allow you to become a more effective communicator. In Karen’s case, improving one communication skill had the knock-on effect of improving another...Week 3:...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...become friends with it again can be life changing in so many ways . How is our relationship with food formed?Eating behaviour shown on social media platforms appears divided, with many influencers sharing their exercise and restrictive eating behaviours and others showing how they indulge in food. A current trend that populates social media is ‘What I eat in a day’....
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Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...becomes unsustainable. The election of Trump will inflict parallel damages on healthcare in the US. It is likely that Obamacare will be altered to cover far fewer people or repealed entirely. This will disproportionally hurt many of the ‘white poor’ who voted for Trump. There are also strong indications that a Trump presidency will have a deleterious effect on...
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