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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...introduction and development of mathematics, the social and natural sciences, literature, arts, culture and architectural infrastructure (Lane-Poole, 1886). In his literature The Story of the Moors in Spain, Lane-Poole (1886) clarifies the distinction of the Berber Moors originating from North Africa, which separates them from their Arab counterparts. [An illustration of...
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...Introduction - This course will help you understand the general issues of children's rights as well as exploring childhood and children's needs. It is also possible to link these ideas to the wider issue of the social construction of difference and power. The materials are primarily an audio file, originally 28 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...Introduction - This course is about rights and rights claims, and the idea of implementing justice in the international sphere based on the concept of rights. It is agreed by most people that ‘rights are a good thing’ and in many respects they are. However, this course deliberately takes a critical view. It seeks to examine closely why rights are a good thing and...
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...Introduction - One of the fundamental aspects of music is that it exists in time. Before the age of recorded sound, music notation was developed to try to capture the ephemeral and fleeting qualities of music. In this course you are not going to be looking at notation, but you will examine the organising and regulating function of musical time. You will consider the...
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...Introduction - What makes us who we are? This course will look at a number of different explanations that psychologists put forward in their attempts to understand why people feel, think and behave the way they do. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Psychology & Counselling This course is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn Cymru. Tell us what...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...Introduction - This course looks at the role of innovation in the development of industries and considers how production costs change as sales increase and as new technology is introduced into the production process. It looks at the relation between consumer demand for a good and that good's price, and at how the relation between output and production costs in different...
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...manage climate change, far outweighed the costs of action and that was the conclusion. But it was a conclusion that certainly for me I came to as a result of the work. RH: There was some criticism by other academics at the time that you hadn’t submitted the review for any peer reviewed process, it was given to the media first and some people say, and I think there’s...
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...managed to catch an extraordinary sequence where a young male polar bear actually goes onto a walrus island and attacks what is effectively really lethal prey with foot long tusks. And it’s a really powerful sequence and in fact the polar bear is fatally injured at the end of that sequence, and for me I felt it operated on two levels; it was a very powerful sequence in...