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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...study of the ‘Exploring Thugga’ video, and view ‘Culture and identity in the houses of the Roman élite’. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: practise identification of ‘indigenous’ identity and culture...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...engineering does the course adopt? This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing & IT...Systems engineering: challenging complexity: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: evaluate a specific example or case of a product development process in terms of the ‘waterfall’ life cycle model of software development classify new product developments as: ......
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...study in Yucatán, Mexico, that is bringing us closer to the causes of the dinosaurs’ disappearance. Under the hashtag #CienciaLatina, there's an initiative to spread scientific news on networks created by scientists of the region. Its objective is to create and expand a network of scientific blogs and to contribute to efforts to spread scientific knowledge. The idea...
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Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...study focuses on how mothers and fathers born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia (current Czech Republic and Slovakia) make sense of their roles as parents in the UK. My participants all grew up during communism which adopted socialist values of sharing resources equally for everyone but at the same time strictly controlled the lives of the citizens. In contrast,...
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Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...studies with Martin Heidegger in Marburg 1928 completes doctoral dissertation on St Augustine at Heidelberg 1933 works for socialist and Zionist causes; arrest in Berlin; flight to Paris, where she undertakes social work preparing young Jews for a new life in Palestine 1935 first visit to Jerusalem 1940 internment in France 1941 refugee in New York, working as journalist...
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The German language zone
Languages

The German language zone

...morgenpost.de is the online edition of the Berliner Morgenpost. The link here leads to an article about the third anniversary of RadialsystemV, an arts centre in Berlin showcasing and promoting a wide range of art forms. Download the Arts:2 tasks and ideas pdf Find out more Study German with The Open University: Rundblick for beginners or explore other language courses....
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What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...learn to their school lessons. You can read more about young people’s experiences of being a researcher. If you are interested in learning more about the lives of young people, then please see the Open University prospectus about the Bachelor of Arts degree in Childhood and Youth Studies. Also, you might like to look at the Open University’s Postgraduate Prospectus....
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Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...studying these representations could reveal a wealth of information about the society that commissioned and paid for them. We are particularly interested in the choice and heftiness of punishments applicable as consequences of professional and social sins mirroring the economic basis of that society and the main targets for keeping order. One could argue that...
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