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Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...managed to come up with some ideas about the dos and don’ts for your first visit. Your answers may differ slightly from these, but here are some examples: You would expect to take money with you on your visit to pay for your consultation with Amphiaraos (the regulations stipulate 9 obols, which, as you might have worked out from the glossary entry on ‘drachma’,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...projects, making important contributions to mathematics, philosophy, theology and history. Some of Leibniz’s projects were related to his salaried position, but his employers also allowed him to work on other projects of his choosing. He was interested in formalising calculations, and constructed the first mechanical calculator that could add, subtract, multiply and...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...projected onto those around him. All the characters are, in some sense, aspects of Pip himself. This means that what van Ghent identifies as the two kinds of crime in Dickens – ‘the crime of parent against child, and the calculated social crime’ – are ‘analogous’, or like each other (ibid.). Both involve treating persons as things: the crime of dehumanization....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...Project ( reported in 1998 that up to one third of vaccinations were not being carried out in a way that guaranteed sterility, and only one third of countries importing vaccines had a monitoring system to detect vaccine-associated adverse events. The procedures for ensuring optimum storage of vaccines and disposal of injection equipment were often inadequate, and the most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...project, in philosophy, which considers the justifiability of war and killing in war, and concludes that there are occasions when it may be justified. Any theory that says that there can be a just war, even if only in theory, is a just war theory. Any sustained argument about the conditions of a just war is a contribution to just war theory. This is not a historical...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...project across outdoor spaces and creates a rich musical analogue for cultural concepts of ‘abundance and social harmony’ (Stobart, 2013, p. 27). Thomas Turino, writing of the flute music in an Aymara Indigenous community in southern Peru, describes a ‘dense unison’ in which some musicians play slightly sharp or slightly flat of one another (1989, p. 12). The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...project. This element is no longer supported and cannot be used. [Figure 3 Graph illustrating the geographical diversity of Ancient Olympic athletes] Figure 3 Graph illustrating the geographical diversity of Ancient Olympic athletes. In addition to their athletes, Greek communities sent sacred ambassadors (theoroi) as their official representatives to the Ancient...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs