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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Introduction - Are we always free to choose one course of action over another, regardless of the situation that we are facing? Many of us would answer ‘no’ to this question. Yet, existentialist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre in particular, think that human beings always have a choice. Existentialists tell us that we are free – but what...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...managed to evolve to exist on land...Fossils are a glimpse into the distant past and fascinate young and old alike. This free course, Life in the Palaeozoic, will introduce you to the explosion of evolution that took place during the Palaeozoic era. You will look at the many different types of creatures that existed at that time and how they managed to evolve to exist on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...Project Bill McKibben interview RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer BM: = Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author, leader of 350.org, participant RH: Alright look, Bill, I’m doing some climate change documentaries and I’d like to record your thoughts for those. They are looking at climate science, climate politics and climate energy solutions. And then I’m also –...
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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...Introduction - It is hard to imagine anyone with an interest in human history and human culture who has not been fascinated by ancient Egypt. Books and films on Egypt abound, ranging from painstaking science to wild fantasy, and the legacy of Egypt can be felt in fields as diverse as jewellery, architecture (Figure 1) and film. Courtesy of Paul Wood (The Open University)...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...Introduction - This course offers a fascinating overview of the 'big ideas' that have shaped physics from the time of Kepler to the present day. Using little mathematics, the course surveys fundamental features of key physical theories and provides the essential context for the further study of physics. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...project future sizes and so within a mannequin creation option we can choose what nation they come from. So for us China is a really important market so we might want to look at a Chinese female of medium height and then we can choose a reference here. So its SIT 2014 but we’ve got the option to project all the way up to 2030. We aim to fit as many of our customers as...
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