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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...study, just 3.8 per cent of those who’d never experienced a traumatic event had seriously considered suicide. If they’d experienced a non-conflict-related traumatic event (like a car crash, for example, or a loved one dying from cancer), that number jumped to 10.5 per cent. And for those who’d experienced conflict-related traumatic events? The number increased...
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Article 15 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...Studies (Primary) qualification. Most contemporary theorists argue that cognitive processes need to be taken into account in order to explain how the social environment makes its mark on the child’s gender development and how the child plays an important role in directing his or her own gender development. Cognitive processes The theories covered in this section all...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...study them? Bill Rolston: If it doesn’t sound too much of a cliché, because they’re there is the first answer. Let me explain that. In 1981, there was quite literally an explosion of murals in Belfast and other parts of the North in Nationalist and Republican areas in support of the hunger strike. Now, this was unusual in that Nationalists and Republicans, for the...
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Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate how chemical processes in the rest of the world affect the Arctic environment and the species inhabiting it recognise the physical processes that determine atmosphere and oceanic flows in the Arctic appreciate the scientific research process and the use of scientific evidence recognise the role and limitations of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic building blocks of musical theory and notation understand music theory to the level demanded by Grade 3 of the Associated Board of the Royals Schools of Music theory syllabus understand music theory to a level required to move on to Open University Level 2 Music offerings, e.g. A224 Inside Music...An...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...skills of visual analysis; to examine the relationship between art and politics; and to introduce you to some of the complex issues involved in interpreting works of art...In this free course, Napoleonic paintings, we will examine a range of Napoleonic imagery by David, Gros and a number of other artists, beginning with comparatively simple single-figure portraits and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...study of how guinea worm disease has been brought to the brink of global eradication the challenges that must be overcome in order to make further progress in reducing the burden of infectious disease and meeting the associated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)agreed by the international community in 2000. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...study in Law...Human rights and law: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the historical growth of the idea of human rights demonstrate an awareness of the international context of human rights demonstrate an awareness of the position of human rights in the UK prior to 1998 understand the importance of the Human Rights Act 1998...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs