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Advanced German: Regional landscapes
Languages

Advanced German: Regional landscapes

...University courses, including L193 Rundblick: beginners’ German, L130 Auftakt: intermediate German and L203 Motive: upper intermediate German, which are taught in English and German. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L313 Variationen: advanced German...Advanced German: Regional landscapes: Learning outcomes - At the end of this...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...University course DD102 Introducing the social sciences...Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: compare and contrast two different approaches to studying juvenile delinquency understand psychological approaches to studying juvenile delinquency such as Eysenck’s personality theory and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...University course B294 Financial analysis and decision making...Organisations and the financial system: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and contextualise the nature of organisations’ financing identify the main types of financing and relate them to different types of business organisations give examples of business...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...University of Wisconsin-Madison and the MODIS science team via NASA. Figure 1.3: courtesy Dr Marcus Badger. Figure 1.6: courtesy Dr Anne Jay. Figure 1.7 and 1.8: Paul Martin / Alamy Stock Photo. Figure 1.10: Eden, Janine and Jim in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/. Figure 1.14: Blatant World in flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...universally binding treaty) affirms equal sovereignty of all states regardless of religious belief, and prohibits the acquisition of territory through aggressive war. While these principles have been violated by the major powers – recent examples include the US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Russian invasion of the Ukraine in 2014 – it is impossible for any...
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Article 10 mins
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, who has conducted extensive research into joint enterprise and shares many of Morrison’s concerns. “We’re convicting people of very often a serious crime and punishing them despite the fact that there doesn’t seem to be enough culpability or responsibility for that crime,” he says.“…to be a principal to murder you...
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Article 10 mins
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...University of California, Santa Barbara - is citing reports giving Donald Trump an average of a +3% poll rating following his Convention. That's a positive, and better than Mitt Romney managed in the 2012 cycle (he actually managed to shave a point off his ratings) but it's on the low side. True, George W Bush only got a 2% uplift when he was seeking re-election, but no...
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Article 5 mins
Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...University's History courses and qualifications. A campaign, rather than a battle [The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916] The Somme was the first great action by a British Army on a continental scale. It was the longest, bloodiest battle of World War One, a campaign lasting four and a half months, and fought over a twenty-mile front near the Somme. In February 1916...
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Article 10 mins