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Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...Introduction - This free course gathers together a range of materials to enable you to explore some of the many possibilities for research music. It gives you a series of snapshots of musicology, emphasising both the breadth of musical topics that might be studied by a music researcher and the many different ways in which such study might be approached. After a brief...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...Introduction - This free course, Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice, will explore some specific examples of the tensions and debates linked to the aim of achieving literacy for all. You will focus on the current discourse related to the teaching of the technical aspects of literacy to a ‘sufficient standard’ and also on different perspectives related to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...introduction to the lecturer The full lecture A question-and-answer session with Professor Kershaw Introducing Ian Kershaw [Ian Kershaw] Presenter: Good evening and welcome to the first annual Open University BBC Four History Lecture. Our lecturer tonight is one of the most distinguished scholars currently working in Britain, Ian Kershaw, who’s Professor of Modern...
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Audio 45 mins
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...Introduction - In this free course, Listening to young children: supporting transition, you will explore ways of listening to children in order to support their experiences of changes or transitions. Such transitions can involve many dimensions including familiarisation with new cultural practices, the development of new relationships, and potentially a shift in identity,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...Introduction - The term European citizenship triggers an immediate association with the European Union, its member states, and people who are citizens of those states. This course develops another way of thinking about European citizenship, whereby European citizenship need not be granted by the state, limited to the territory within the EU borders, or acted out by people...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Introduction - In this free course, Art and the Mexican Revolution, you will explore the significance of certain murals by the artist Diego Rivera. While Rivera is now often known (if he is known at all) as the husband of Frida Kahlo, he was in fact one of the three major Mexican muralists (alongside José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros). Together, these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...Introduction - Until the 1980s, the icy satellites of the outer planets were scarcely thought of as places where life could ever have existed. Few could have imagined that one of them, Europa, would within twenty years have become the rival of Mars as a priority for astrobiological study. This course recounts the history of our changing perceptions of the icy satellites,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Introduction - This introduction to the history of art and visual culture provides a broad overview of the major developments in western art between c.1100 and the present day. It is divided into three parts, each of which explores the concept and practice of art in a distinct historical period. The first part, ‘Medieval to Renaissance’, explores the diverse forms of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs