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Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Introduction - This course covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which fingerprint identification is sound and scientific. Visible fingerprints can be photographed conventionally but an important scientific problem is how to make 'latent' fingerprints, which are not visible to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...Introduction - Many discourses on food security have focused on feeding 9 billion people by 2050. Organisations such as the World Bank have picked up this challenge and directed their investment in agriculture to produce more food to feed more people (World Bank, 2012). The focus on increasing the production of food is now deep-rooted within food policy. However, food...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...Introduction - This course will deal with reception of music from a number of different perspectives, all of which involve consideration of cultural contexts outside Europe. We will consider reception both in general, cross-cultural perspective and in the specific case of Sundanese wayang golék (rod-puppet theatre), and we will consider the influence of both social and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...Introduction - The material presented here focuses on a key question for criminologists, criminal justice policy-makers and politicians: ‘Does prison work?’ The material is an audio file, originally 28 minutes in length, and examines the issues around this apparently simple criminological question. It was recorded in 1995. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...Introduction - In this free course, Assessment in secondary mathematics, you will be asked to look at many issues that surround assessment. Assessment is about establishing where a student is in their learning. Sometimes the intention behind that assessment is to sum up and/or certify what a student has attained over a period of learning – this is known as summative...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...Introduction - This course focuses on the strategies available in the twenty-first century to tackle major infectious diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, tuberculosis and infections of the newborn. Infection poses a major threat to public health all over the world, but it disproportionately affects children in low- and middle-income...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...Introduction - This course explores the dynamic interrelationships between citizenship, personal lives and social policy for people who have fled their country of origin seeking asylum in the UK. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Social sciences...Who counts as a refugee?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to:...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...Introduction - In the eighteenth century and into the early part of the nineteenth, considerable numbers of aristocratic men (and sometimes women) travelled across Europe in pursuit of education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, particularly ancient...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs