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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...law which cleared anyone who had committed a political murder in the Weimar Republic – including Erzberger’s murderers who no longer had to answer for their crime. However, after the Second World War, the two assassins were arrested by the US occupying forces in Heidelberg in 1945, tried in 1946 - and acquitted on the basis of the 1933 law. This decision was met with...
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Article 15 mins
Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...law. But there’s a catch: you first have to reach a member’s territory in order to claim it. You have to be on the ‘inside’ looking out, not on the ‘outside’ looking in. Walls and fences, checkpoints and border controls, are erected for a reason: they place people on the ‘outside’. [A barbed-wire fence dividing Hungary and Serbia] As such, there seems to...
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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...laws or rules. They typically share many similar cultural values and expectations of each other. However, in some highly multicultural societies there may also be many cultural differences. The social world by contrast refers to the idea that people’s lives and society, more generally, are shaped by a variety of relationships, cultures, communities and institutions....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...laws designed to preserve the ‘purity’ of the German ‘race’. Lotte and Wolja knew that their lives could also be threatened in the future. Making a decision to leave was one thing; finding a way of doing it was another. At the time that they met, Lotte was living with her widowed mother in Berlin, planning to join her older sister and husband in Palestine. Meeting...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...Law....Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour: Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 Judge’s gavel When we think of crime, we often imagine individuals acting alone, but did you know some of the most serious offences take place within businesses and organisations that appear legitimate? Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour refer to illegal actions or serious...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...law if you misuse information from Shodan, so don't do it. Having said that, let's try one last search. Programmable logic controllers are found just about everywhere and can be attacked just like any other computer. Shodan allows us to search for PLCs. In this case, I'm going to look at the Siemens PLCs running the same System 7 software as the uranium enrichment plant...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...law & order agenda to the delight of his audience. But how do those who work in the prison system or have first hand knowledge of it react to his views? Roland is a lifer at Grenden Prison. ROLAND I don't think he really realises what prison is. I don't, you know, I think this is a political statement on his part. It doesn't do anything for me at all and it doesn't do...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...Law, The OU Law School, Faculty of Business and Law); Fiona MacKinnon (Staff Tutor, Nursing, School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, WELS); Gavin Williams (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); Roisin McPhilemy (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); Sue Creed (Staff Tutor, Education,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs