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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...studies that will allow you to explore each one in more depth. You will be able to see how these concepts applied within different historical and geographic contexts. This will allow you to compare and contrast how empires functioned differently over time and space. Session 1 Understanding empire will introduce you to some of the tools that historians use to make sense of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...Study in the social sciences – and criminology in particular – inevitably touches on sensitive and emotive topics that may be difficult and upsetting. This course explores harms against nonhuman animals that you may find difficult to work with, including images of nonhuman animals in confinement....Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?: Introduction - We live in a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...study in Science...Galaxies, stars and planets: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the scale of items within the Universe appreciate the wide variety of objects contained in the Universe understand the relative sizes of the planets within the Solar System calculate how long it takes for light to reach the Earth from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand what is meant by sustainability in the context of the supply chain explain the four perspectives of supply chain sustainability assess the degree of sustainability in your (or any other) organisation from each of these four perspectives, and provide suggestions for improving critically assess the extent of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...study our MA in Creative Writing for free. Open Futures – Creative Writing Scholarship...Start writing fiction: Introduction - This free course, Start writing fiction, looks at how characters might be drawn and how setting is established. It explores the different levels of characterisation, from flat to round, and how character and place interact. It also works on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...studied in the lab, few clinical trials had tested it head-to-head against more modern surgical techniques. So although Marineau agreed to try the maggots, she had no idea whether they would actually work for James. She also had no idea how to use maggots, and had to be talked through the procedure over the phone. But it worked perfectly: “We had amazing success with...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...Studying drama, filming natural history With regard to education, I actually went to university and studied drama, and that wasn’t acting school or directing school, it was much more the exploration of the dramatic process, storytelling, kind of voice and body work and that kind of thing, so I learnt a lot about storytelling, presenting ideas, presenting performances...
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Video 30 mins
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...study in Social sciences...Social science and participation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the ways in which social scientific descriptions and understandings are related to the enactment of social worlds understand the enactment of social science in terms of informing public debates and shaping the social worlds it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs