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Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand and describe the key features of (human) language and languages understand what applied linguistics is explore different contexts where language is a central issue...Language in the real world: 1 What is language? - Language is of central importance to our everyday lives: we are constantly reading, writing,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...skills that will be really useful for further studies in science. So here we go Week 1. We begin with an introduction to the moons of the Solar System and getting some facts straight with a myth-busting animation. You’ll learn about orbits - mainly about how our own Moon’s orbit around the Earth is responsible for its phases, and how the interaction between a moon’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...skills in ensuring that this administration served it full five year term and delivered on real political and economic progress for the Irish people. The defining moment of this period and a defining moment in Irish history was the successful negotiation by Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair of the Good Friday Agreement between the British and Irish Governments and the political...
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Article 10 mins
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...skilled nursing facility. New England Journal of Medicine; 382: 2081-2090. Barnett, M.L., & Grabowski, D.C. (2020) Nursing Homes are ground zero for COVID-19 pandemic: March 4, 2020. JAMA Network 2020. https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/2763666 Carter, R. (2020) COVID-19 The support UK care homes need to survive. BMJ 369:m1858 doi;10.1136/bmj.m1858....
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Article 20 mins
Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...skills. Clip 2 If you learn foreign languages, the world's your oyster. Queen Elizabeth I Mr Shakespeare, I am pleased. Your actors will perform this play for me. Will To perform, or not to perform: I'll just do what she tells me. The Tragedies [tragedy genre image] Murder, war, adultery, revenge, suicide, revolution, ghosts and witches: this is the dizzying fabric of...
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Article 3 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise definitions and applications of key terms relating to mental health understand and apply basic grammatical terminology describe briefly the different types of sounds used in speech in both acoustic and articulatory terms outline the key features of human language as compared to the vocalisations of other species...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...study. He was a well-travelled emperor, who spent much of his reign away from Rome, surveying the empire. This might suggest that, to Hadrian, Rome was not of central importance. However, he was a prolific builder and funded extensive building schemes in Rome. He grasped the symbolic importance of the city as the hub of the empire, a place where the emperor needed to make...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand key social issues and debates in contemporary UK society, such as: how social and material lives are related; how our identities are made; and how societies are ordered and governed understand inequalities, difference and diversity in contemporary societies construct a simple social science argument using appropriate...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs