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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...skills, you will learn how to explain what you hear using technical language...This free course, Discovering music through listening, will introduce you to the musical elements used by musicians to create a piece of music: pulse, tempo, metre, rhythm, melody, harmony, structure, texture, timbre, and dynamics. You’ll learn how to identify the different musical elements...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise various models of marketing communication identify different digital marketing communication tools and understand media selection explain different types and characteristics of message sources and appeals evaluate how message appeal can be employed in different contexts critically reflect on ethical issues in online...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...studies, the arts, spiritual and philosophical thought, literature, systems thinking and ecopsychology, all in the service of unpicking our collective and individual responses to the crisis, much of which is unacknowledged and unconscious. Climate Psychology aims to contribute by: Building understanding and support for individuals and groups Enabling transformation and...
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Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...studies today. Going mainstream Tangerine offers a chance to revisit these issues, and is receiving similar levels of attention. It is filmed on a super low budget using a $8 phone app that delivers a close up, social realist edge to a story that crosses the boundaries of drama and documentary. The script was co-crafted with the lead actors and draws on their own...
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What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...study of the evolution of Zika virus concluded that it had probably emerged in east Africa in the early 20th century and spread to South-East Asia around the time of World War II. The Micronesian strain was clearly of Asian origin. Then, in 2013, a massive outbreak occurred in Polynesia, in the eastern end of the Pacific Ocean. With the arrival of the Zika virus on Easter...
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Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...studying of French literature; but also the spoken word. I got a great deal out of my year abroad in France, I really loved it, and I became really a good speaker, but I was not very good at writing French, and that’s partly laziness, but I also sometimes wonder, is it because I have oral Bengali? And perhaps I’m quite good at communicating, but not actually...
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Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...study English in their spare time too, away from school desks. As the seasoned journalist Beppe Severgnini recently said while commenting on Brexit for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera (Severgnini knows the UK like the back of his hand, having worked as a London correspondent first and for The Economist afterwards), “the English language doesn’t solely belong to...
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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...study of developmental processes and diseases of many kinds. We are, at minimum, several steps and several years away from being able to create fully grown human-animal chimeras. But worries over the ethics of chimera research have been with us since the beginning of the 21st century. Ethicists have begun to map the space of difficult moral questions surrounding this...
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