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From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...becomes bigger, the Remain vote in West Wales finds a less powerful expression in the cartogram than in the more traditional map. The most significant thing about the cartogram on the right is the way in which the sharpness of the colours fades because of the shading used. There are some areas in which the yellow is strong – there the Remain vote was close to 70%; and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...becomes: listening to music or looking at paintings with someone who can tell us a little about what we hear or see – or what we‘re reading – is one way of increasing our understanding and pleasure. That may mean learning something about the people who produced the writing, music, painting that we are interested in, and why they produced it. But it may also mean...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...Student published during the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Contingent upon this drive in the early modern period for a new rationality and certainty more wedded to secular rather than religious aims, was that justice would be forged, for better or worse, on a basis of existing and definable rules and doctrines. As a consequence this meant justice was just as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...OU’s main campus) and in Awassa, also referred to as Hawassa, in Ethiopia. According to the Numbeo website (2019), a three-course meal in a mid-range restaurant in central Milton Keynes can cost about £20 per person. In Awassa it is approximately £9.50. Similarly, monthly rent of a one-bedroom, central apartment in Milton Keynes is roughly £825, compared to £125 in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...becoming more 'active' in the direction of science practice by 'two-way' interactions, with dialogue taking place between science and some part of 'the public'...There are a wide range of interactions between 'science' and 'the public'. Examples range from visiting a museum, or indulging in a science-related hobby, to reading a newspaper article about a breakthrough in...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...become a central concept in mental health policies and practice, particularly since the implementation of community care in the early 1990s. Community care policies have been highlighted both by the media and by government as a failure, partly because they have failed to provide service users/survivors with the support they need in the community. However, they are also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...students received a training which meant they never played, studied, or sometimes even heard a single piece of music by a woman as part of their musical education. Absence is a powerful teaching tool. The absence of women composers from the canon and musical education has caused the ongoing absence of women from the performing repertoire today. These are the historical...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...become the prey of dogs and all kinds of birds; and the plan of Zeus was fulfilled. Sing from the time the two men were first divided in strife— Atreus’ son, lord of men, and glorious Achilles. Glossary Achaeans: one of the words used by Homer to describe the Greeks. Hades: the Underworld; also used of the god of the Underworld. Atreus’ son: Agamemnon, leader of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs