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Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...Introduction - The course describes some of the main features of a scientific calculator and encourages you to use your calculator, both for everyday arithmetic and for more complicated calculations that use the function keys as well. Key sequences, which describe which keys to press, are included in all the activities, so you can try out the ideas straightaway. Due to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...Introduction - Before diving into religious change in the Sixties, you will reflect on how you think about religion and spirituality in your own context. The following activity will help you to understand how complex modern religious identities are, as well as clarify your own position – and maybe some preconceptions too! Most importantly, it will show you that...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...Introduction - This course, on the first two acts of John Webster’s Renaissance tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, focuses on the representation of the theme of love and marriage in the Malfi court, and the social conflicts to which it gives rise. The course guides you through the first part of the play and will help you to develop your skills of textual analysis. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

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 effect of genre and how genre can be used. The main teaching material in this course is taken from an existing...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Critical criminology and the social sciences. While the names of some of the disciplines in the social sciences are likely to be familiar, you might have less of an idea about their core characteristics and, in particular, the strengths and limitations associated with these disciplines in terms of helping to make sense of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat...The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...projects to complete in the future, and you kill such a person who wants to go on living, you’re doing something wrong to that person which is something you’re not doing if you kill a being who is fully not a person and who can have no wishes or hopes for the future, and therefore you can’t cut off or thwart or frustrate those wishes for the future. So I think the...
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Audio 15 mins
Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...management speak, the kind of words that politicians are using this year, the kind of words that school kids are using this year. Every job, every profession, every social class has its own vocabulary, and they change year on year, and I think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively...
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Audio 15 mins