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Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...Introduction - The course uses the example of climate change to highlight the dynamic and volatile character of the planet, and how globalisation links together, in often unequal ways, people and places across the world. The course focuses on the potentially momentous impact of global environmental change on Pacific Islands like Tuvalu. It introduces students to...
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...Introduction - This OpenLearn free course introduces and explores the idea of the moral equality of combatants and discusses the question of the basis of liability to killing in war. It invites students to understand and assess the epistemological argument for the moral equality of combatants and other arguments for and against this idea. This OpenLearn course is an...
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...Introduction - In this free course, Advanced Spanish: Protest song, which is taught in Spanish, you will study the origins of protest songs, paying special attention to Cuba, Spain, Uruguay and Argentina. The course looks at the international context in the late 1960s when protest songs emerged, for example, in Cuba with the Nueva Trova movement. You will also look at one...
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...Introduction - Science is all about knowledge, what we know about the material world and the Universe in which our world is just a microscopic speck. The aim of scientists is to extend the frontiers of this knowledge so that we can understand more about the physical Universe and the life within it. Scientists acquire knowledge by engaging in four fundamentally important...
Deall datganoli yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Deall datganoli yng Nghymru

...managed to increase the funding for local government to reflect some of the specific priorities that they had stressed to us, around education and social services, and we certainly do welcome that priority. But there's no doubt that austerity is biting deep into local services, and very difficult choices have to be made across all councils. MOHAMMAD ASGHAR Minister, the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Academi Arian MSE

...Introduction to Session 1: Welsh translation by The Open University courtesy: MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ Audio 2: The modern way to shop: ©The Open University Video 3: A decision-making model: translation by The Open University courtesy of MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ 4.0: Transcript: Welsh translation of: Mark...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Introduction - This course looks at how language is understood, which includes hearing and how sounds and words are interpreted by the brain. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and should be of wide general interest. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course : SDK228 The science of the mind: investigating mental health...From sound to...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...Introduction - This course will introduce two approaches to understanding juvenile delinquency. The psychological approach focuses on examining what makes some individuals, but not others, behave badly. The sociological approaches looks at why some individuals and some behaviours, but not others, are defined as disorderly. Much of this course is based on the chapter...