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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...sources of support available to you. These can be found in a later section in this course. In addition, this course presents a range of views, some of which you may disagree with. Nevertheless, being able to understand different perspectives is an important skill in the study of crime and justice. Hopefully you will find that being able to consider competing perspectives...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...source of the fifth conception in Aristotle's work, as already noted above (section 2.1), and mentions Descartes too in this regard. All four conceptions he finds illustrated in Hume's philosophy, and the eighth in particular is also characteristic of Kant's philosophy. The final four conceptions, numbered 9 to 12, concern the role of the imagination in aesthetic...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...Open University course B874 Finance for strategic decision-making...Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: deal with basic uncertainty in a decision-making context understand the basic ideas of probability calculate expected values produce and analyse a decision tree...Decision trees and dealing...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...Open University course A276 Classical Latin: the language of ancient Rome ...Getting started on classical Latin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the main links between English and Latin pronounce Latin words confidently have an understanding of basic English grammar in order to recognise and describe the way...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...Open University course EE818 Language, literacy and learning...Understanding language and learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand key issues in the relationship between language and learning understand the importance of language in learning understand the different ways in which language features in learning reflect...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...Open University course M813 Software development...An introduction to software development: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate the engineering nature of software development describe key activities in software development and the role of modelling explain key concepts in software development such as risk and quality explain...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...source of strength and power for holy and obedient Christian living, which is what he means by ‘sanctifying influence’. Here too, in emphasising the supernatural dimension of religion, Wilberforce is reflecting a wider cultural shift towards Romanticism. Page 273 Before developing the assertions of the first two paragraphs directly, Wilberforce digresses to consider...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...Open University programming began, with a whole new unit set up to deal with its graphic needs. It was here that experiments with character generators began. Typical graphic design during the sixties saw a move to a greater use of photography and more detailed illustration, due mainly to the fact that 625-line transmissions when they were launched in 1964, allowed greater...
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