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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...study in Arts and Humanities...Wilberforce: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the key aspects of William Wilberforce’s political career and writings, and have an appreciation of their historical and religious significance demonstrate an awareness of the relationship of Evangelicalism to cultural transitions between the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...studying examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions. You will explore a number of methods of representing form, including alphabetical designations (e.g., AABA), genre-specific terminology (e.g., terms such as ‘verse’ and ‘chorus’) and visual representations (e.g., diagrams, tables). This course is adapted from the Open University...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...studying this course, you should be able to: answer the question ‘what is population ageing?’ identify the core components of global health understand how population ageing and increasing life expectancy might be seen as a global health challenge...Population ageing: a global health crisis?: 1 Introducing population ageing - You are going to begin by looking at some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...studying this course, you should be able to: deal with basic uncertainty in a decision-making context understand the basic ideas of probability calculate expected values produce and analyse a decision tree...Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty: 1 Dealing with uncertainty: an introduction to probability - Allow approximately 1 hour 30 minutes to complete this...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...study A893. Because A893 incorporates some critical discussion of literary adaptation this course also invites you to think of Christie’s detective fiction in one of its adaptations. Reading guidance and spoiler alert If you have chosen to read the suggested set text, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, you should complete your reading now before...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...studies partly support this notion, but there's also strong evidence that the anti-government and pro-government groups are only slightly different. According to a survey carried out by the Datafolha Research Institute at two recent protests in São Paulo (one pro-government and the other against), anti-government demonstrators were 13 percent more likely to earn above...
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Article 5 mins
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...study found that by May 2016 Trump had received the equivalent of US$3 billion in free advertising from the media coverage his campaign commanded. Trump seemed to intuitively understand that the controversial things he said on the campaign trail captured the voters’ attention in a way that serious policy speeches never could. Most important of all, he had highly...
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Article 5 mins
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...studied and documented some of these languages and writing systems, and their work allows us today to discover many fascinating stories from those cultures. While it is interesting and advantageous to know more than one language, our native language is particularly important, as it is the tool in which we most easily encode and decode our emotions, our stories, and our...
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Video 5 mins