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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...open schooling projects focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals—such as ‘Microplastics’ (SDG 14) or ‘Carbon Neutral’ (SDG 13)—students collect data, evaluate evidence, and propose solutions with peers from other countries. Technology diplomacy focuses on the governance, ethics, and societal impacts of emerging technologies. Students can develop these...
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to...
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...Open University's Open degree Laurie Taylor: Sometime in the early ‘70s I found myself in the back room of a very large estate pub chairing a meeting of local council tenants. Well as I remember, the meeting had been organised by a couple of tenants who felt particularly aggrieved by a recent rent rise, and by a university lecturer who thought that this grievance might,...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...open and sometimes wander. They can smile, grasp another’s hand, cry, groan or grunt. But they are indifferent to a hand clap, unable to see or to understand speech. Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive. They appear to have shed their memories, emotions and intentions, those qualities that make each one of us an individual. Their minds remain firmly shut....
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...Open University course A893 MA English Literature Part 1....Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction: Introduction - English Literature reached new mass audiences in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century, as widespread literacy, and a lack of competition from other media – cinema and radio were in their infancy – encouraged commercial...
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...Open University course L194 Portales: beginners' Spanish...Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in simple exchanges when buying food in shops or at the market in Spain understand basic information about prices and quantities in Spanish order food and drinks in a bar or restaurant using...
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...sources and make logical deductions as a result demonstrate an understanding of how forensic scientists operate and use scientific evidence in a legal context...Forensic science and fingerprints: 1 Introduction to fingerprints - In this section you will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called 'marks'). Question 1 From your general...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...open the eyes of the public. If I live a few years longer, I may have the satisfaction of seeing the downfall of some of the prevailing systems of superstition.” But Charon would then lose all temper and decency. “You loitering rogue, that will not happen these many hundred years. Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term? Get into the boat this...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs