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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile. --- Water is arguably the most important physical resource as it is the one that is essential to human survival. Understanding the global water cycle and how we use water is essential to planning a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...studied were characterised by deeply-held and widespread racist views, this course contains language that is also racist. Although these may provoke a strong personal response, we believe it is necessary to engage with such attitudes to reach a clear understanding of the past. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A113 Revolutionsand...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand and describe strategic management accounting make decisions based on customer profitability using activity costing incorporate risk and uncertainty in project appraisal...Challenges in advanced management accounting: 1 Strategic management accounting - The purpose of this first section is to focus on how management...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...skill as she develops the complexity of the characterization, by providing an insight into the internal machinations of Mrs. Drover, the turmoil of her subconscious mind. This is further reflected in physical responses that show the reader her anxiety – shutting her eyes and then reopening them. Whether Bowen is exploring her character’s outer world or her inner...
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Article 45 mins
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand ‘modernisation’, ‘modernity’ and ‘modernism’ and how they relate to each other understand modernity in interwar Europe understand the main historical debates about society and culture in interwar Europe, in particular a sense of the patterns of change and continuity, and the extent to which any change can...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...its report emphasises the extent to which UK financial services currently build on their EU connections, it offers fuel for both sides of the argument, enabling opponents of the Eurozone to argue that Britain would be better-off out whether the Eurozone now prosperously pulls together or disastrously falls apart. Explore more about the EU referendum... Study at The OU......
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Article 5 mins
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...studying a page of fine print in Baedeker, and I will not deceive the reader. It is true; but it is also true that I had some wonder, altogether my own, that so great a city should make so small an appeal to the imagination. In this it outdoes almost any metropolis of our own. Even in journalism, an intensely modern product, it does not excel; Manchester has its able and...
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Article 10 mins
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...studied composition you pass, as it were, from your car to your room, as from one chamber to another. This is putting the fact poetically; but, prosaically, the intervening steps are few at the most; and when you have entered your room your train has ceased to be. The simple miracle would be impossible in America, where our trains, when not shrieking at the tops of their...
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Article 10 mins