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Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...Introduction - Until the 1980s, the icy satellites of the outer planets were scarcely thought of as places where life could ever have existed. Few could have imagined that one of them, Europa, would within twenty years have become the rival of Mars as a priority for astrobiological study. This course recounts the history of our changing perceptions of the icy satellites,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...Introduction - This course introduces ‘voice-leading’ or ‘Schenkerian’ analysis. You will study this technique by exploring harmonic structure in piano sonatas by Mozart. This course will concentrate mainly on the examination of short extracts from these sonatas. Certain specialist analytical terms are glossed at the end of this free course, and these words are...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...Introduction - This course offers you around 15 hours of interactive study in French, with audio and video material and at an advanced level, on the topic of science and technology in France. Learning Outcomes include how to express wishes, preferences and necessity, how to structure arguments, write a summary, use the subjunctive, express the conditional, pronounce...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...Introduction - The terms ‘voice’ and ‘text’ are multifaceted. Both have a wide range of possible meanings in everyday speech and academic usage. You may encounter the two words used in a variety of ways, in connection with different subjects, and they won’t always mean exactly the same thing. In the following sections we will explore the shifting meanings and...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...Introduction - Watch the video in which Annika talks about the subject of this week. ANNIKA MOMBAUER Hello and welcome to Week 3, the final week of the course. Over the last two weeks you’ve looked at the physical and mental casualties of trauma, and you’ve explored some aspects of civilian life during the First World War. In this final week you’re going to turn...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...management of such patients in general, and supported a decision to continue to treat Kate aggressively,” recalls Menon. Kate eventually surfaced from her ordeal, six months after the initial diagnosis. She described how she was indeed sometimes aware of herself and her surroundings. Each day she woke up, she fell asleep, but like all such patients she could not respond...
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Article 15 mins
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...Introduction - For many calculations you use a calculator. The main aim of this course is to help you to do this in a sensible and fruitful way. Using a calculation to solve a problem involves four main stages: Stage 1: working out what calculation you want to do; Stage 2: working out roughly what size of answer to expect from your calculation; Stage 3: carrying out the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...managed to identify well this guy is the same age as the governor, has the same number of kids as the governor, lives on the same street as the governor, it’s probably the governor. So that I think has slowed down the open data movement. And these are serious things we need to wrestle with. But I wouldn’t write it off either. So much of what we do now on More or Less...
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Audio 20 mins