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Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...course, Visions of protest: graffiti, introduces students to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of graffiti examples, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in Morecambe, 'tags' in a Milton Keynes underpass, a McDonald's advert and exhibits at a highly established art gallery, the Tate Modern. Students will consider different...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...course, Rising China and Africa's development: oil, considers the impact of the rise of China on Africa’s development through the lens of oil production...China has emerged as a global economic superpower over the past few decades. This has sparked intense academic and popular debate about the long-term implications of its continued growth. The expansion of China into...
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...course, Economics explains discrimination in the labour market, will help you look at this problem from a new perspective: through economics. You will learn how economists have tried to understand what drives this distortion of the labour market and why women and those from minority ethnic groups seem to suffer the most...Discrimination in the labour market exists in many...
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...course, Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink, focuses on buying and ordering food and drink at a restaurant or bar. You will be able to use some basic vocabulary relating to food, drinks, meals, quantities and measures. In this OpenLearn course you will listen to Spanish speakers in a variety of situations...Do you want to improve your language skills and communicate more...
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...course introduces you to the basics of describing language. Using examples from English, you’ll learn how words are built, how they fit together to make sentences, and what labels like noun, verb and adjective mean. You’ll see how language patterns in regular ways and how the meaning of a sentence is more than the sum of its parts. This course is suitable for anyone...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...course, Information technology: A new era?, looks at whether it is possible to predict the future of this industry by comparing it to the development of the automobile industry in the USA...Do the advances in information technology equate to a new industrial revolution? The advances made by IBM, Dell and many other manufacturers have resulted in massive changes to our...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...course, The body: A phenomenological psychological perspective, explores the theoretical perspective on embodiment: the phenomenological psychological perspective...The body has traditionally been treated as a biological object in psychology. However, is there more to our bodies than that? Some psychologists recognise that we relate to other people and the world about us...
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...course will take you some steps further in your journey toward learning Spanish. You should have some previous knowledge of Spanish, whether you have studied Getting Started with Spanish 1 and Getting Started with Spanish 2, or because you have learned Spanish elsewhere. This free course will allow you to practise some very useful skills, such as how to greet people in...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs