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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

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
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...become aware of both the shape of their environment – and their food (Figure 7). [Described image] Figure 7 A dolphin projects a series of clicks at different frequencies towards its prey. By sensing the returning echoes, it can determine the distance to its prey and environment. Other animals that commonly use ultrasound are the bats. These species show amazing...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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
Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant

...student experience at university starts with the quality of the services provided by the university staff: academics and professional support staff. In order for all staff to provide these quality experiences, they need to feel well and supported themselves. You cannot pour from an empty cup. (Bassa, 2022) Mae’r cwrs rhad ac am ddim hwn yn rhan o’r casgliad Cefnogi...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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
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