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Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and scriptwriting...This free course, Creative writing and critical reading, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer’s development at the postgraduate level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers’ methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. Examples will cover the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...fictional characters and care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to achieve an illusion of real people and their relationships in a real world. Through analysing narrative you will think about who the narrator is, and the importance of the narrative point of view in telling the story, as well as understanding how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Sniffing out disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out disease

...fiction, but Dr Claire Turner believes we are moving one small step towards that...[Dog sniffing] Imagine a world where the only medical diagnostic test needed was a small box with flashing lights, like the tricorder used in the TV series Star Trek. You would just wave it in the air near the patient and instantly find out what was wrong with them. This is science fiction,...
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Article 5 mins
Creative Writing
History & The Arts

Creative Writing

...Fiction Jane Rogers talks about her work in terms of viewing herself as a contemporary novelist. She draws links to literary greats, and techniques like 'the unreliable narrator'. The Mass Observation Archive Dorothy Sheridan, director of the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex, talks about the archive in terms of a research tool and a repository of...
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Audio 2 hrs 28 mins
Discuss: Representations of the working class
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Representations of the working class

...fiction and drama or else shown as stereotypes: the unworthy and sometimes the worthy poor. But slowly from the 1950s more positive representations became available, especially as actors, writers and directors from the working class entered the media. Today we have a mixed picture from, say, Gavin and Stacy to Shameless. We'd like you to share your thoughts with us and...
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Activity 10 mins
Asteroids
Science, Maths & Technology

Asteroids

...investigate its composition. [Asteroids near Earth. Meteorites orbiting planet. Deep space image, science fiction fantasy in high resolution ideal for wallpaper and print. Elements of this image furnished by NASA ] Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System Right now there are two active asteroid sample-return missions in space... ​...
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Article 15 mins
Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade
History & The Arts

Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade

...How did the revolution inspire and inform de Sade's writing, if at all? The historical aspect and de Sade's personal experiences are analysed and explained. Horror and imprisonment Imprisoned for much of his adult life, de Sade's writings are rife with institutional motifs. This discussion highlights and explains principal autobiographical and fictional examples....
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Audio 48 mins
Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...learning about our differing expectations of academic work and research. Both academic and fictional literature have provided insights and context, along with others’ feedback on our emerging outputs. But there has also been the personal requirement to tolerate ambiguities and confusions as we seek to hold open our analytic impulses to frame our interpretations through...
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Article 5 mins