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More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...More working with charts, graphs and tables: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect on the reasons for needing to improve skills in using charts, graphs and tables understand the following mathematical concepts and how to use them, through...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...out of the opposition between these two forces. With his interest in the social boundaries and ideologies that create the self, Greenblatt reveals his dependence upon Althusser and upon Foucault’s technologies of power. Greenblatt focuses not only on the ideological construction of the human will. He also underscores the notion that the Renaissance offered new...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...out to answer the following core questions: How has young people's health been constructed in public and policy discourse in recent years, and what are the implications for young people and those who work with them/support them? What might an alternative, critical framework for understanding young people's wellbeing look like? How is young people's wellbeing shaped by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...out here aim to give you a little more clarity on what such key concepts stand for and how they are used with regards to intercultural communication. The activities also aim to increase your cultural self-awareness, which is an important basis for building cultural knowledge, because if you start to understand how your own cultural values and beliefs are reflected in your...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...out of business, and improving information about individual workers would help remove statistical discrimination, so that firms did not need to use stereotypes based on group characteristics in deciding whom to employ. Institutional economists, on the other hand, believe that the causes of labour market disadvantage are structural, built into the institutions of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Creativity, community and ICT: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: engage in debates on different views of creativity and form a view on what creativity means recognise the ways in which individuals can be creators and generators of new knowledge...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...out a fibrous tissue of smaller channels, flushed with water twice in twenty-four hours. At noontides, and especially at the equinoxes, the sea asserts its royalty over this vast region.’ Revd Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah, 1983 (first published 1880) Before reading any further, click below to view an introduction to the dynamic physical and human history of this coastal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...out that their child’s pain is not going away, so they need to be encouraged to speak up. Practitioners want to help, but if they don’t know a child is in pain, they can’t do anything about it. Lastly, it’s important to take an individual approach to both the child and their family. Talking and listening to each child and finding out about their experience,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs