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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
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
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
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
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
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...students producing no rubbish for three weeks at a time then 15 sacks once a month? And how would they compare to a family of four producing 2 sacks a week? What is our basis of comparison? Rubbish per household, per person, per week, per month, per year? In the video, Professor Hans Rosling demonstrates how development in terms of average income and lifespan has changed...
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Video 45 mins
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...becomes clear that the social world cannot be understood in separation from the natural world’ (2016, p. 7). Potter’s argument addresses one of the challenges of exploring environmental harms, which is that from a humanocentric perspective, they can seem rather abstract and remote from the suffering of specific individuals. This means that the exploration of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...become too kind of targeted with their reading. Derek, I wonder if you've got anything that you want to kind of add to that. DEREK NEALE Yeah. I think I've always thought it's really important to read about the sort of books you want to write. So you read novels if you want to write novels. You read short stories if you want to write short stories. And similarly, with...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs