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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...changing nature of society and social relationships and then asks you to think about your own place in society and how you influence and are influenced by it. Through the introduction of different social science perspectives, you explore commonalities, differences, conflicts and solidarities between people, societies and nations. The resources in this course encourage you...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...changes could impact the industry and its stakeholders. This course material was originally written for FutureLearn in 2015. It was published on OpenLearn in February 2019....Week 1: The value of film: Introduction - The film business aims to make money, just like any other business. However, it's also an important cultural aspect of our lives, and a key part of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...changing the endings of both elements in accordance with Italian grammatical and spelling rules. In the third example the author is treating the term as Latin, this time changing the endings of both elements in accordance with Latin grammatical and spelling rules...Exploring languages and cultures: 2.2 English as a lingua franca - We now turn to the most successful lingua...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...changes over the years. I've deliberately chosen to discuss poems from different periods, and given dates of first publication. Do keep this in mind, especially as you may find some examples more accessible than others. The idiom and register of a poem written in the eighteenth century will usually be quite different from one written in the twentieth. Different verse...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...change over time and vary between countries, so that what may be a crime in one place or at one time may not be so at another. But it is also the case that whether some behaviour gets treated as a crime or even viewed as deviant may depend on more contextual factors: Who did it? Where did they do it? We will come back to these problems later in the course. For social...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...changes to the muzzle allowed the muscles of the face to extend, giving mobility to the upper lip, enabling anthropoids today to make a wide variety of facial gestures. Facial and vocal communication are very important in anthropoid societies...Studying mammals: The social climbers: 3.5 Communication - Compared with many other mammals, primates have a rich repertoire of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...changed the background to either a different seascape or no background at all. Japanese participants judged focal objects (e.g. the fish) more accurately when in the original background than when presented in a different underwater background or with no background at all. On the other hand, the changing backgrounds didn’t impact the performance of US participants. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...change our attitude or perspective?...Ever wondered about the psychology of literature or stories? Or how a certain narrative might change our attitude or perspective? This free course, What happens to you when you read? explores our relationship with books and the ways in which engaging with fiction in particular can change readers. Research shows that as well as...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs