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John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...centre of The Duchess of Malfi stands a heroine rather than a hero, which is fairly unusual in Renaissance tragedy. The play also contains an extremely enigmatic and sinister villain. This course will examine how Webster represents his heroine’s marriage for love, which goes against the wishes of her aristocratic family with disastrous consequences. [Described image]...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...children to associate words with the characters which represent them; and it teaches those brought up speaking other Chinese languages how to pronounce Mandarin. ZHOU YOUGUANG: That's the Chinese pronunciation of "yīng guó." SPEAKER: The work of his team has helped to slash the illiteracy rate in China from 80% to just 10%, but his change in career also proved a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...centres became active, including ones devoted to visual processing, face recognition, emotion, memory, language and conceptualised thought. Signals flew back and forth from region to region and out to your organs and limbs. But this wasn't all that happened when you came round. You also started having conscious experiences – experiences with a certain feel to them....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...researcher figured out whose medical records were actually the governor’s, and mailed a copy of the governor’s own confidential medical record to himself. It didn’t have the governor’s name on but they’d 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...
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Audio 20 mins
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

...researched exhaustively, and entered into UK RED. If that is the case, we would like to hear from you. You can find information on contributing to the project, and our simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Further reading - Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...research, raising the questions of alternatives. It was very early on in the process, I think it’s come a long way since then, but I had a significant amount of feedback from the medical community about that show, so I think it did open a dialogue and that programme was certainly used a lot in schools and universities, as do most of our shows. And in the wildlife area I...
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Video 30 mins
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...centre; four small corner bays complete the square outline (Figure 5). [Described image] Figure 5 Byzantine church plan (a) and diagram (b) of the ‘cross-in-square’ or ‘inscribed cross’...Week 1: Introducing the Byzantine icon: 3.2 Sacred II: Icons in church, liturgy and worship - The ‘cross-in-square’ type presented artists with a hierarchical construction...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...research provided in the ‘References’ section at the end of the course to learn more about what spending is included in the definition of ‘moderate’ and ‘minimum’ retirement lifestyles. Looking at how much you need to spend in retirement can be done by listing everything you currently spend: using your receipts and bank statements will help. Then look at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs