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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...religions came to support Ukrainians on the Vyshyvanka March in London. [Described image] Figure 11: The Vyshyvanka March in London, UK, on Sunday 22 May 2022. [Described image] Figure 12: The Vyshyvanka March in London, UK, on Sunday 22 May 2022. [Described image] Figure 13: The Vyshyvanka March in London, UK, on Sunday 22 May 2022...Week 1: Greetings: 7.2 Stories of...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...religion - Concern about the morality of the education that prisoners received also put some limits on the expansion of the curriculum. Education was meant to be ‘reformatory’ – to make convicted criminals into better people. Prison education was not about giving men, women and children particular skills to enable them to get jobs. Instead, it was thought that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...La Niña events (strengthening winds, leading to cooler eastern tropical Pacific sea surface; Figure 13b), occur every few years and cause huge changes to ocean and surface temperatures – and weather – around the world. [Figure 13 shows two images that show sea surface temperature anomalies during an El Niño as ‘heat maps’ of the globe. The heat maps use a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...religion) as crimes or even deviant , although the UK now recognises such actions as criminal. Killing people is usually thought to be both deviant and criminal, but societies vary in the exemptions they permit (it may depend on who commits the act: agents of the government often have some immunity – think about soldiers in wartime or deaths in police custody; deaths...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...religion, political affiliation, trade union membership) is considered ‘sensitive’ and need to be processed more carefully. For more details on what is considered ‘personal’, see the UK Information Commissioner’s guidance on ‘What is personal data?’ Starting from these principles, GDPR also establishes a number of rights for individuals in relation to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...religion to fantasy – with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland seen as a kind of anarchic, liberating turning-point. One problem here is that childhood was very different 200 years ago, especially in terms of what we would now call media input; children had fewer things to entertain them, and different mindsets. […] Which leaves us with deciding what we mean by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...religions, like Islam or Christianity (in which a god creates the world). Or you might have included scientific stories like the Big Bang. If you have a special interest in cosmology stories and the way they vary among different groups of people you may have thought of the stories about how Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva create the world, from the coils of the great snake...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...Dan Taylor). Thank you to the OU students who helped to develop the Changemakers project upon which this course is partly based. Thank you to the UK Parliament Week team for helping to develop the original Changemakers guide. Thank you to the Political Studies Association for helping to fund the original Changemakers guide. Thank you to OU Scotland, OU Wales and OU...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs