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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...Learning outcomes - After reading this course, you should be able to: recognise how images can be analysed and interpreted comprehend how images can be used to express uncertainties give examples of images that show change and social and cultural diversity...Reading visual images: 1.1 Why look at photographs? - Age Concern poster: age and identity [Figure 2] The Cenotaph:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...fiction, kings and conquerors in the Oriental world have always been singularly tolerant. (p. 128) Valuable woods and ivory, natural stones, faience, glass and metals were employed by the ancient Egyptians for the manufacture and decoration of their caskets. Throughout the East, through all ages, these highly ornamental boxes were used to hold the more valuable and...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the glossary terms for the course summarise the main features of the current global burden of infectious disease and the public health movement that has evolved to reduce its impact, emphasising the contributions of epidemiology,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...learn about the challenges connected with efforts to reconcile the observed exoplanet population with current theories on how planets form. The two main theories for this, namely the core-accretion scenario and the disc-instability scenario, will be explored mathematically...Over the last few decades astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars other...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...learn the skill to be able to identify how you are going to take the various different bits from your various different cultures and turn them into an identity; but I think recognizing different bits that belong to different influences doesn’t mean you don’t mean you are not a complete person or that you are less of a group that you are another. Turning to the idea of...
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Article 15 mins
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...learning English for Muslim women/mothers were not also linked to the wider agenda of preventing extremism and immigration control. Why should measures to protect these women and girls from gendered violence, which is a cause and consequence of gender inequality, be shaped by these policies which are criticised by many for fuelling race and religious discrimination....
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Article 10 mins
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...learned since then? The history of Ireland, the northern state, Britain, and their relationship with the language, both before and since 1921/2 is one rarely spoken about by current commentators. Many would begin their political analysis of the language in more recent decades, but to do so would be to whitewash centuries of oppressive and indeed colonial anti-language...
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Article 5 mins
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...The Independent. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sarah-reed-latest-news-prison-officer-ambulance-delay-holloway-prison-woman-body-found-dead-cell-a7823411.html (Accessed: 5 November 2021). Ritchie, A. (2017). Invisible no more: Police violence against black women and women of colour. Boston: Beacon Press. More FREE learning on OpenLearn...
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Article 15 mins