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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...Introduction - This course is designed to help you develop the analytical skills needed for studying literary texts at university level. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Approaching prose fiction: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise and discuss selected library texts from the...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...Introduction - The versatility of mammals is a central theme of the 'Studying mammals' series of units, but surely no environment has tested that versatility as much as the rivers and oceans of the world. Mammals are essentially a terrestrial group of animals, but three major groups have independently adopted an aquatic way of life. In moving to the water, aquatic mammals...
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...Introduction - This free course, Environment: treading lightly on the Earth, focuses on the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), and explores what you can do to lighten those emissions to help reduce the rate of climate change. You will assess your ‘carbon footprint’ and see what actions you and, if relevant, other household members...
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...Introduction - Welcome to this Open University course on histology. This course is designed for students studying human biology at school or university, medical laboratory scientists and anyone interested in biomedical science. Histology is the study of tissues and their structure, and histopathology labs are found in most hospitals. In the course you will see a histology...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...Introduction - This free course explores the ways in which urbanisation processes help to generate issues of public concern. It elaborates a theoretical framework of critical spatial thinking that can be used to analyse the complex ‘agency’ of urban processes in generating, identifying and resolving the myriad issues associated with contemporary urbanisation. This...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...introduction to an employer or, if there was no work, a penny to go on their way. The society enabled men to determine the labour supply. To bind members together and to help ensure that claimants were genuine members, the Oddfellows had many rituals and passwords. Officers were elected which offered opportunities for working men to learn how to run organisations....
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...Introduction - Natural selection acts on phenotypes that vary in survival and reproductive success, and the response to selection is a change in allele frequency resulting in evolution. In this free course, Mosquito resistance to insecticides, you will see how allele frequency can change rapidly in a population in response to selective pressure. You will consider how...
Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...Introduction - This unit focuses on the Forth Road Bridge that connects Edinburgh with Fife. This suspension bridge continues to face a number of problems regarding its deteriorating condition. The short video included in this unit illustrates some of the major structural issues facing bridges and examines some of the proposed changes to the use of the Forth Road Bridge...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr