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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...Open University course DD311 Crime, harm and the state Content warning 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
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...opened up new habitats and new sources of food that the mammals were quick to exploit. As author David Attenborough (DA) notes in LoM Chapter 7, three major groups of mammals have independently adopted an aquatic way of life, the suborder Pinnipedia (part of the order Carnivora), the order Sirenia and the order Cetacea. These groups are the focus of our attention in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...opens up for new ways of making products. In this free course, Additive manufacturing, you will see how product designs are captured digitally in ways that allow the product to be created by depositing material incrementally. You will be introduced to the principles that underpin additive manufacturing so that you are equipped to make sense of future developments in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...Sources, Oxford, Blackwell in association with The Open University. Fortini Brown, P. (1988) Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio, New Haven and London, Yale University Press. Fortini Brown, P. (1996) Venice and Antiquity, New Haven and London, Yale University Press. Fortini Brown, P. (1997) Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, Upper Saddle River,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Open University Level 2 module, Economics in Practice. It will introduce you to some of the practical ways that the theories, tools and techniques of economics are used and impact on our everyday lives. You will look at the issue of flooding, a problem with a long history but becoming increasingly important globally because of the impact of climate change. Using economic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...sources they explored the brain development of a group of neglected children. As an example of what can happen in an extreme case of sensory deprivation, Perry and Pollard published the startling images shown below. [Figure 1] Figure 1 An example of the effect of sensory deprivation on the brain These images illustrate the negative impact of neglect on the developing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...Open University course E315 Contemporary sport and exercise issues....Sporting women in the media: Introduction - The aim of this free course, Sporting women in the media, is to explore how and why gender discrimination and gender inequalities exist in sport and to investigate some of the implications. There might be some biological differences which means that males and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...Source: Weissbort, 2003, p. 13) These four personal stories come from very different sources. The story of Lotte and Wolja is constructed from their children's memories of stories they had told, together with information in letters and documents found after their deaths. Victor wrote his own story in order ‘to sketch in the human dimension of the ordeal (and the peril)...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs