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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...become a great poet. But what did she read as a child and a teenager, and how did this shape her thinking and writing? Much of the evidence of her reading from her family correspondence is now contained on the UK RED site, so let’s start by conducting an advanced search. Activity 1 Search for the evidence of Elizabeth Barrett’s childhood reading in UK RED. Click on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...become habitable? Other features are named after members of the crew: as well as the Cook’s Straits, there is an island named after Joseph Banks who went on the voyage. Deciding what the name for the lands should be and then imposing it was one way of claiming ownership...Session 1: Understanding empire: 4 Summary of Session 1 - In this first session of the course, you...
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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
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
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
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