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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...de couleur) to describe others: this reflects the different contemporary social and political experiences of the people they discuss. In the session on human ‘zoos’, Dr Suki Haider describes Sarah Baartman as Khoikhoi – a term to describe one of the Khoe-speaking polities in South Africa, and much more accurate than the pejorative colonial designation of...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...De Vere, 1996; Richardson, Woods and Franklin, 2007, p. 376-378). This is a very important statement by an artist who, unlike Vasari, had in-depth knowledge of both Byzantine and Renaissance art. It is true that El Greco was born and raised in Venetian Crete, and he started his career as an icon painter. However, any suspicion of strong attachment to his Byzantine roots...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...FAQs), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: 1. Join over 200,000 students, currently studying with...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...FAQs), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence . Figure 3: courtesy © Julie Charlesworth Figure 4: © Lenscap Photograph/Shutterstock.com Figure 5: © Jeerawut Rityakul/Shutterstock.com Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...FAQs), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...De Bono, E. (1985) Six Thinking Hats. London, England: Penguin Books. Freire, P. (1993 [1977]) Pedagogy of the oppressed. (Ramos, M) London, England: Penguin Books...Session 1: Community: Further reading - Belfast interface project ‘Reflected Lives’: Intergenerational Oral Histories of Belfast’s Peace Wall Communities project YouTube Reframe - breaking down the...
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly considered, and rejected, the possible descent of several species from a common ancestor. The physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles...
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...de’ (French) or ‘de’ (Italian) and that means you don’t actually need a genitive case and so on. JC Right. GH These are all things that are sort of there in classical Latin but certain options have been removed and certain other options that, the potential at least of those options, has now been exploited. Disappearance of Latin James Clackson So these are all...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs