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Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...introduction to the Aeneid. Virgil’s Latin epic, written in the 1st century BCE, tells the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his journey to Italy, where he would become the ancestor of the Romans. Here, you will focus on the characterisation of this legendary hero, and learn why he was so important to the Romans of the Augustan era. This course uses translations of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...Introduction - This course will introduce you to the wide-ranging types of mammals that live in the trees. You will learn how they thrive in this demanding environment, with the help of a range of intriguing adaptations related to their unusual life-styles. This is the eighth in a series of units about studying mammals. To get the most from these units, you will need...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Introduction - Welcome to the first week of Succeed with maths – Part 2. The first two weeks of this course will focus on measurement and the units that are used to communicate this. People use numbers to solve a wide variety of different problems, including when designing buildings, navigating and working out the fuel consumption of an aircraft. These examples all use...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...Introduction - Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment – from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This course shows that in the early twentieth century, access to care was unequally divided. The rich...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...Introduction - This course will help you understand how arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences. The material is primarily an audio file, originally 30 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...Introduction - Law is an interesting and lively subject that touches upon all aspects of everyday life. We hope that you will enjoy this course, which provides an introduction to the fascinating topic of law. This course assumes that you have some interest in the law. You may be interested because of some direct involvement with the law, for example in buying a house, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...Introduction - Different forms of international division remain at the heart of some of the most pressing issues of interest to International Relations (IR) today. Figure 1 below shows how two former empires (in this case the British and Russian Empires) expanded across Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and demonstrate how the practices of former imperial...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Introduction - This introduction to the history of art and visual culture provides a broad overview of the major developments in western art between c.1100 and the present day. It is divided into three parts, each of which explores the concept and practice of art in a distinct historical period. The first part, ‘Medieval to Renaissance’, explores the diverse forms of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs