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The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...become accessible even to those who cannot read or write. As Saint Theodore (759-826), Abbot of the monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople, put it ‘The gospels were “writing in words”, but icons are “writing in gold”’ (Kazdan, 1991, vol. 3, p. 1660-1661 and p. 2044-2045). The following case study will help illustrate the co-relation and reliance between the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...become involved in the affairs of humans (the gods often take sides and have their own favourite mortals), and the Odyssey in particular features a whole host of monstrous characters who try to intercept Odysseus on his way home. Study note: a note on dates You will notice that this course uses the abbreviations ‘BCE’ and ‘CE’ when dating events, texts and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...becomes even more explicit in the details that you can see in the opposite wall, depicting Mexico Today and Tomorrow. This was painted in 1934–35, after Rivera had returned from producing important murals for corporate patrons north of the border, and after Calles’s domination of the executive had finally been supplanted by the more progressive regime of Cárdenas....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...becomes increasingly like a short circuit, and the output voltage decreases as frequency increases. Therefore low frequencies are passed and high frequencies are (to some extent) blocked. Low-pass and high-pass filters can be first-order, second-order, third-order, and so on. However, band-pass filters and band-stop filters must be second-order or higher, although it is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...become possible for management to consider revising its pricing, production levels and cost plans. Such individual unit cost information is vital for internal decision making (e.g. pricing) in the normal multi-product firm or in a services firm where different types of service offering are provided...Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...OU module B207 Shaping business opportunities, so please ignore any reference to the module. INSTRUCTOR In the first part of this session, the tasks associated with Operations Management were represented by a simple input process output framework. This model has been extended by Nigel Slack and his team in his operations management text. The basic structure of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...becomes problematic. With TQM, an objective could be ‘zero defects’, which is relatively easy to define and measure. However, the only agreement about an objective of ‘zero environmental impacts’ may be its impossibility. We could consider breaches of environmental regulations as a possible objective. Starting with this as the comparison and widening the scope to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...OU Systems Group for animations in ‘2.1: When to use each diagram.’ These animations form part of T552 Systems thinking and practice: Diagramming from which much of the diagramming source material for this unit was derived. T552 is a diagramming pack which supported modules in the undergraduate Systems Diploma and Systems Residential School and supports modules in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs