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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...think about ourselves in relation to that world. Insofar as novels typically have a specific location in time and place, they are characteristically involved in the major upheavals of their societies, directly or indirectly: we are viewing the novel as a genre capable of registering in satisfyingly complex ways what we think we know about how the world we live in has come...
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...think if I’d been… I don’t know, I was lucky to grow up in the countryside in the thirties and to see… natural life at close quarters. My studies in animal behaviour Back in the 1950s I was working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was working on animal behaviour, in particular behaviour of a small fish called the ten-spined...
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life and times of Adolf Hitler. His two volume epic biography of the Nazi dictator is now the standard text on the subject, and he’s speaking tonight,...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...Think broadly about the music you experience in everyday life and make a list of up to ten such ‘musical’ sounds. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 MA Music part 1...Introducing music research: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand something of the diversity, purposes and...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...Think about how your environment has determined how you go about certain things, and even whether you go about them at all. Discussion Most of you will have woken up in a bed. While all humans sleep, their beds can look very different depending on their culture and climate. Your bed is a cultural construct. If you’re like me you were woken by an alarm clock. In the long...
Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...thinking was very different from non-Asian thinking. This difference is structured in terms of reason and passion, with the US as reasonable and the Filipino population as passionate and emotional. A further supposition was that the Filipino population could be divided into good and evil. This leads to particular subject positions. A hierarchy is implied, with the US as...
Week 2 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 2 Civilisations: The debate

...think about the fantastic collection of sculptures and paintings that were shown on episode two 'How do we look?'? Were you familiar with any of these objects before you watched the programme? Were there any that particularly surprised you, or moved you - and if so, why? Note that the Comments are sometimes slow to upload, so just press 'Save' once - your post should...
Art history in Wales
Education & Development

Art history in Wales

...think the courses I have selected below could help answer a number of questions and provide areas for further exploration, such as: an understanding of Welsh history how religion, language and politics shape art the nature of cultural heritage an appreciation of the techniques and focus of art history how different subjects can be brought together in art history The...