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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...student with Downs Syndrome and a teacher] A wealth of research has investigated the ways in which the brain, and other parts of the body, respond to the arts. Many art forms trigger both intellectual and multi-sensory responses, drawing on different areas of the brain. Many also invoke an emotional response, perhaps engaging with memories. Some art forms further include...
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...students, and two schoolkids? Both probably would be prosecuted, but there might be considerable differences in sentencing if magistrates perceived one case as student high jinks and the other as reprehensible juvenile delinquency. In the case of the chemical discharge, we assumed that most of the time it goes unobserved. Even if most of us had seen such a discharge,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...students who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that studying a classical language involves. This course will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin. Along the way, you will learn some Latin words, master the pronunciation of Latin and explore...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...students, 120 said that they mainly use a laptop in their studies rather than a desktop computer. What percentage of students use a laptop? On a production line for computer monitors, 3 out of 750 monitors are faulty. What percentage of monitors are faulty? Answer 420 / 700×100=60 So 60% of the people surveyed use the internet for general browsing. 120 / 320×100=37.5 So...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...become hostile to all migrants, regardless of whether or not they are lawfully resident in the UK – including, for example, the recent scandal relating to the Windrush generation. Despite these restrictions, there are many examples where social workers can, and do, support people with insecure immigration status in both the statutory and voluntary sectors. For example,...
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...becomes infected. Here a distinction is made between the infectious disease caused by a particular agent and the disease symptoms. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion in common parlance about different diseases. Often, people say that they have ‘a bit of flu’ when they have an infection with some other virus, or a bacterium that produces flu-like symptoms. Such...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...OU PhD student) John Harrison about colour perception and synaesthesia. HELEN KING Hello, I’m Helen King. And I’m Professor of Classical Studies at The Open University. And I’m joined today by John Harrison who’s an applied psychologist and also a PhD student in the Department of Classics here. Thanks very much for coming, John. JOHN HARRISON Pleasure. Thank you,...
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...becomes almost closed off at maturity. Members of the Insectivora have numerous (up to 44) small teeth. Look at Figure 2a, which shows the skull and lower jaw of the hedgehog. [Figure 2] Figure 2a: adapted from Reeve, N. (1994) Hedgehogs, illustrated by Ruth Lindsay, T. & A.D. Poyser Natural History Series; Figure 2b: adapted from Churchfield, S. (1986) Shrews, Anthony...