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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...social and cultural diversity of fifteenth-century Venice and how they affected the city’s art. In particular it focuses on Venice’s relations with the East and its several manifestations, the legacy of Orthodox Christian Byzantium, and the contemporary Islamic societies of the Ottomans and Mamluks. Studying Venice and its art thus offers a challenge to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...social sciences. (Tip: Whenever the key concepts 'environment', 'technology' and 'sustainability' are discussed in the text, keep a record of where this happens and make your own notes on how each term is described or defined.) As you read through the text you will come across different technical ideas and terms. While you may well be familiar with some of the areas, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...social functioning (Cantwell, 1996; Wehmeier et al., 2010). Difficulties with social interactions, both with peers and family members (Flicek, 1992; Barkley, 1997), are often used to provide an assessment of functional impairment, which is a requirement for ADHD diagnosis in addition to the core symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. The problems with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...social and political organisation - here we have a ‘pagus’ of Roman citizens and a native ‘civitas’, in the city of Thugga. These two groups lived together in the city but had different legal rights and forms of local government with the traditions of the Civitas persisting from the pre-Roman period. These two communities were united in AD205 when the city was...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...social worker, had been out in West London when a confrontation between his friends and another group of youths turned violent. Though he was not directly involved in the fight the prosecution’s case against him rested on phone calls he had made to friends who subsequently arrived at the scene and fatally stabbed the victim. Alexander knew that his friends carried...
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Article 10 mins
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...social libertarians—for her achievements as a woman. On the official Weibo account of the Sanlian Life Weekly magazine—which tends to have a more liberal readership—an article describing Clinton’s impressive political career generated a lot of positive attention. Commenters expressed fondness and respect for her as someone who shows “extraordinary courage and...
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Article 5 mins
Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...Social Care qualifications. In this second of a series of OpenLearn articles linking to The Ageing Well Public Talks (AWPT) Series structured around Five Pillars for Ageing Well that runs every year at The Open University, we are going to discuss how we could prepare for a home death. Earlier in the AWPT Series, we discussed Advance Care Planning presented by Barbara and...
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Article 5 mins
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...social fieldwork, all the location visiting, all the garnering of what is or what has been, must be reimagined before it can find a place in the text. It must rise into the orbit of the anarchic, gift-conjuring, unknowing part of the novelist’s mind before it can acquire its own truth for the work in question. Graham Greene, when asked by journalists how he would make...
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