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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...Introduction - In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves, understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This course provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...Introduction - This free course, Teaching secondary music, explores some of the key ideas and concepts that beginner teachers in secondary schools need to understand so they can plan their teaching to support the musical development, understanding and skills of all the young people they teach. These include: what it means to teach and learn musically the musical...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...Introduction - This course introduces ‘voice-leading’ or ‘Schenkerian’ analysis. You will study this technique by exploring harmonic structure in piano sonatas by Mozart. This course will concentrate mainly on the examination of short extracts from these sonatas. Certain specialist analytical terms are glossed at the end of this free course, and these words are...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...Introduction - For researchers in a range of academic disciplines, the question of what people read in the past, and how they read it, is of great importance. Evidence of reading helps us to understand the formation of literary canons, both from a popular and educational standpoint. It allows us to give due weight to the impact of significant texts at key historical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...Introduction - The terms ‘voice’ and ‘text’ are multifaceted. Both have a wide range of possible meanings in everyday speech and academic usage. You may encounter the two words used in a variety of ways, in connection with different subjects, and they won’t always mean exactly the same thing. In the following sections we will explore the shifting meanings and...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Introduction - The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement (1969) In this course I want to offer you a panoramic view of the intellectual background to the ideas we're going to cover. There are four principal sections – 'Machines', 'Minds', 'AI' and 'Computers' – framed by this introduction and some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...Introduction - Watch the video in which Annika talks about the subject of this week. ANNIKA MOMBAUER Hello and welcome to Week 3, the final week of the course. Over the last two weeks you’ve looked at the physical and mental casualties of trauma, and you’ve explored some aspects of civilian life during the First World War. In this final week you’re going to turn...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...managers in the City that I’ve spoken to, (most of them, not all), believe that Shell and companies like Shell have 30 years, probably, left before they really have to start tightening down on their fossil fuel operations. And they’re willing to continue investing, certainly, for a decade or two before they have to start thinking about pulling funds out. BM: People...
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Audio 5 mins