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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...public recognition. As you will see, his career was to be a constant struggle to reconcile a radical aesthetic with the demands of public taste and longstanding, well-respected artistic traditions...Delacroix: 1.2 Ideas and influences - The Oriental and the exotic played a central role in this process of artistic negotiation and reconciliation. The Enlightenment’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...public life – and focused exclusively on male composers, such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Mahler. The emerging classical music canon became firmly entrenched through performance. Public concert life developed rapidly during the nineteenth century, with many new concert halls and opera houses being built throughout...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...Publications. Shakespeare, William (2005) As You Like It, edited by H. J. Oliver, Penguin. Shakespeare, William (1996) Henry V, edited by A. R. Humphries, Penguin. Shakespeare, William (1996) Othello, edited by Kenneth Muir, Penguin. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Approaching plays: Learning outcomes - After studying this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...publications (Box 1.1) and the funding of developmental and practice-based research (Box 2.3). As you read, look for, and make notes on, where ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ are directly referred to, as well as ‘rationale’, ‘conceptual’ and words starting with the stem ‘methodolog...’. Then make notes on the similarities and differences between the criteria...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...public eye – or perhaps you selected a particular type of person, for example human rights activists, military personnel, or people who work in the caring professions...Exploring Homer’s Odyssey: 2.1 Heroes in ancient Greek poetry - The heroes we encounter in Greek epic poetry may share some of the characteristics that you thought of in your answer to Question 1 of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...health care professionals, academic researchers, and policymakers who are looking for why and how to do better research into our world working in partnership with children and young people. Video 1 Discussion Key points: Research questions are frequently aimed at, and answered by, adults. Children and young people have the right to express themselves. Children and young...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...health centres to full community facilities. These ‘extended schools’, as the government terms them, offer an opportunity for schools to contribute to and work more closely with their communities. Click on the links below: Extended Schools: providing opportunities and services for all and Extended schools: access to opportunities and services for all [accessed 26...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...Health Sciences qualification. The immune response to viral infection The immune response to a viral infection is primarily generated by a type of white blood cell called lymphocytes; cells that are mostly localised in ‘lymphoid tissues’ such as the lymph nodes or tonsils. However, the number of lymphocytes that can recognise and react against any individual type of...
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