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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...become the dominant pictorial form by 1600. Unlike an altarpiece or a fresco, this kind of picture has no fixed place; instead, its frame serves to separate it from its surroundings, allowing it to be hung in almost any setting. Its value lies not in any use as such, but in the ease with which it can be bought and sold (or what Marxists call its ‘exchange value’). In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...becoming ever more popular. Approximately £840 million of tourism spending by overseas visitors in 2013 was attributable to film-induced tourism (Olsberg SPI, 2015). Film is often regarded as a driver of the other creative industries, in that it is high profile and often makes use of the highest design and creative skills. In the UK, film was the first creative industry...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...becomes 5.4, 1.67 is rounded to 1.7 while 10.05 is rounded to 10.0 Activity 8 The following table is an extract from a data source showing the percentages of world exports accounted for by the top 10 cotton exporting countries. Using the figures in Table 1 and a total value of world exports of $53.7bn complete the table by calculating the percentages that are missing....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...becomes very easy to predict after a while. As the course progresses, you will be introduced to some of the rules and asked to practise individual sounds. Übung 3 How are the following letters or groups of letters pronounced in German? Listen to this audio extract again and, if you like, make some personal notes on the pronunciation. Write down something that will help...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...becomes chronically infected but never develops disease symptoms and acts as a persistent reservoir of infection to others. Suggest some examples (other than TB, HIV and malaria) that fit these criteria. Your suggestions may have included viral hepatitis, typhoid, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhoea...Public Health Approaches to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...become a Nightingale family. We're a group of staff and residents in one area of the home on Ronson floor. I get to know those residents really well. I spend time with them. I spend time liaising with their families. And it is caring. It's not a cold, clinical, you know, process. You get to know people. You're there to care for them. You're there to help them. And so,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...become free in every respect; nor were the French completely constrained in what they could do while the Nazis were in occupation. However, ‘a free nation’ or ‘a free state’ may also mean one that is not totalitarian. A totalitarian state is one in which the state authorities, in principle at least, exercise control over most aspects of subjects’ lives....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...becomes tedious: while you might be quite happy to find 25 or 92, it would take a long and fairly dull time to find 250 or 920 by hand. So you will be using your calculator for most calculations involving powers, even when the numbers themselves are quite simple. However, there is one number whose powers are quite easy to find, namely 10. For example: one hundred = 10 ×...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs