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...social mission. We believe that the main barriers to starting education are access, lack of confidence and cost. This is why the Open University works to remove these barriers: We build on formats and platforms that are available offline and online. This improves our discoverability and access. We eliminate cost by planning the delivery of free learning through sound and...
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Language and creativity
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Language and creativity

...social conditions of the ordinary working person. Although Deller is not referencing it directly, it also parallels a movement from the USA in the 1930s, which drew on European surrealist techniques that were current at the time and applied them to social commentary and critique (Fort, 1982). A technique that was favoured by artists in this earlier social surrealist...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
International Women's Day
Society, Politics & Law

International Women's Day

...social achievements of women. Below are some of our top picks for this year. Each article, interactive or free course will teach you about the most influential women of our time and the struggle for equality. Educate Women on Health Choice Decisions From menopause to abortion – dig deeper into some of the social factors that have influenced women’s health. Celebrate...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...social/political dimensions. The challenge for public health systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is relatively straightforward. Likewise, we can measure the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions to improve knowledge and change...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...social media in connecting with new audiences...Jack Perks Jack is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker specialising in freshwater fish, but with a passion for all things natural history. After studying a BA (Hons.) in Marine & Natural History Photography at Falmouth, he went on to work for many conservation groups like the Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF supplying images...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size...In this free course, Understanding society: families, you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...working with physical environment and the social environment together. And that form of geographical imagination, as we said earlier on, is key to bringing those things back together and that’s what we want to try and do in this module. Michael: Brilliant! Thank you. This is a second level module, part of Q99, and it hits the shelves in - ? George: In September, 2018!...
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Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...work of Stuart Hall. His first article The Great Moving Right Show, written before Thatcher came to power and while Hall was still at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, was a prescient analysis of the ‘swing to the right’ that was taking place in British society. In this article, Hall outlined the way in which Thatcher and the radical right had put together...
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