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Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...geography and so on in precise and more academic ways (for example, they need to be able to talk about the rise in humidity and heavy precipitation rather than about raining cats and dogs). In technical fields this is particularly useful, since so much activity revolves around measuring, comparing and ordering...Grammar matters: 7.1 Subject learning in schools - In the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...geography, sub-Saharan Africa, awash with fires. Western Europe, ablaze with lights. Well, not all those lights are powered directly by industrial combustion, but you can bet industrial fire is somewhere fundamental in their chain of creation. And they all substitute for open flames. Or a finer grain but more politically radical example, North Korea, distinctive by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Geography...A Europe of the Regions?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the varieties of region and sub-state nations that exist within Europe explain the growth of regionalism critically assess the view that what is evolving is a ‘Europe of the Regions’ engage better with debates about the future direction of Europe, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...geography’ (Wood, 2014, p. 211). In the upper registers of the two main walls, Rivera depicted the four races that between them comprised the ethnic diversity of the Americas: white, yellow, brown and black, with each one holding a particular mineral essential to the production of iron, which is itself central to the development of industrial modernity. The tracing of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...geography of the Bloody Code …’ on p. 166 to ‘… the capital sanction than the Welsh (Table 1)’. What do you notice about this map and what did they measure? Tip: Consider the distance of places from the capital. Discussion King and Ward can be called post-revisionist historians; they have counted executions and compared them to population rates. You can see that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...geography of where they are storing the contaminated water? RUPERT WINGFIELD-HAYES: Well the geography is one of the things that makes it very complicated. Firstly the site is very close to the Pacific ocean, the reactors are less than 100 metres from the shoreline and so any contaminated water doesn’t have far to go to get into the sea. And the second thing is it’s a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...geography’ of a country in the process of self-formation. Figure 23 Salomon van Ruysdael, Market by the Sea, 1637, oil on panel, 41 × 59 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 60.55.4. Photo: © 2010. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence...Dutch painting of the Golden Age: 7 The role of conventions - Schama’s approach represents a partial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...geography. So irrespective of what the official statistics might say, it may be that our fascination with crime is fuelling our story-telling. We took this one stage further in Section 3.4 when we applied the idea of a moral panic to the crime problem. While not conclusive in any way, our discussion suggests that popular concerns with crime may function as metaphors and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs