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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...creative, political step to move the next one on. And right now this negotiation here in Bonne, preparing for Paris, is dancing around those issues but behind the scenes I see a lot of convergence about the need to be practical, the need to be relatively pragmatic in moving forward and I think that understanding, should it persist to the end of Paris will be what...
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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...Writing, as the name suggests, in the Lancet medical journal, a pair of dermatologists reported the case of a patient whose dog constantly sniffed at a mole on her leg, on one occasion even trying to bite it off. The woman sought medical advice. Tests showed it was a malignant melanoma, almost two millimetres thick. It was removed, and she remained well. The second Lancet...
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Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Jesse Kruger in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence. This extract is taken from AA302. © 2006 The Open University. Adapted from works...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © picture / iStock / Getty Images Plus Section 1 image:...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course Image: Maridav/Shutterstock Figure 1: Maridav/Shuttertsock...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons licence). See Terms and Conditions. This course was written by Donal O'Donnell. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Kate...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...write poetry while in Craiglockhart, with Sassoon in particular offering advice and guidance to his younger friend. Some of this poetry was directly inspired by the mental trauma exhibited by other patients. Sassoon’s poem ‘Survivors’ and Owen’s poem ‘Mental Cases’, for example, were both written in Craiglockhart and hauntingly depict the debilitating mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...write about projects, we have to define what they are and describe how they arise. This course will concentrate on describing what a project is, and how it can arise as a part of a planning process, as a response to a changing environment, as a business opportunity, as a problem or as a newly identified requirement. Projects often appear to be mysterious: it can be...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs