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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...become the only story. (Adichie, 2009, quoted in TED, 2009, 13:11) The story you have heard or experienced relating to Chinese culture is just one experience of many. China is a huge country with a big population, regional differences and 56 minority groups. Whenever you hear a story, positive or negative, you must not jump to conclusions but instead connect it with other...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...become more influential and widely accepted, and others may be difficult to find. When it came to sex, the majority view did come to be that the only legitimate sexual relationship was between a married man and his wife (or wives) (and also between a man and female slaves). The four main Sunni legal schools agreed that sexual relationships between men were sinful, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 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
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
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...become familiar with the deeper levels of harmony in Mozart's piano sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 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