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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...Geographies of Film Consumption, London, British Film Institute. Jerram, L. (2011) Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Jones, E.B. (2001) ‘A new stage of life? Young women’s changing expectations and aspirations about work in Weimar Saxony’, German History, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 549–70. Kirk, D. (1969)...
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...geography, or RS involved with project work, using books as well as online resources. And of course, you can have a vital contribution to sixth form study skills and support for International Baccalaureate or EPQ qualifications. The higher the profile that's given to information literacy in school, then the more that your role as librarian will be appreciated and valued....
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...Geography, University College, London; Figure 2.1 Copyright © Sukurta Viliaus & Co.; Figures 2.2, 2.5a & 3.4 Copyright © Owen Mountford/Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Figure 2.5b Copyright © Peter Gathercole/Oxford Scientific Films; Figure 2.6 Copyright © Alistair MacEwen/Oxford Scientific Films; Figure 2.7 Copyright © BBC Worldwide; Figure 2.18 With permission...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...geography, etc. * program A step-by-step set of precise instructions for telling a computer how to carry out a particular task. * public domain A term referring to any created content that is not subject to copyright. Material that is ‘in the public domain’ may be used freely by anyone. * smart device An electronic device that processes information and exchanges it...
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...geography and climate. [This is a photograph of a wood. In the foreground, the ground is covered in brown leaves with a few small green plants growing in it. In the middle ground a small body of standing water can be seen, with rings forming on the surface of the water from drops that fall into the pond. Behind and to the right of the pond are large trees, extending out...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...geography as an academic subject focuses on space: how the place where things happen (the natural or built environment) matters history as an academic subject focuses on time and how things change or don’t across time economics as an academic subject focuses on the distribution of resources. Regarding IR, the core focus is ‘the international’, meaning the challenges...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...geography. A cartographer called Waldo Tobler was drawing new maps of the planet. And these maps have now spread. And I'm going to show you one of them now. This map is a map of the world. But it is a map which looks to you a little bit strange. It's a map in which we stretched places so that those areas which contain many people are drawn larger. And those areas, like...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...geography and/or politics, or even ‘ethnic’ characteristics. In fact, ‘Celtic’ is a linguistic definition, referring to a group of related languages. Scotland can be defined as a ‘Celtic’ nation because of its linguistic background. Pictish and Cumbric were Celtic languages, as is Gaelic, arguably the language which had the greatest influence in establishing a...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs