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Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...et d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Liège (Plate 9.12). Michel-Ange Houasse, The Drawing Academy, c.1725, 61 x 72.5 cm, oil on canvas, Royal Palace, Madrid (Unit 1, Figure 1.8). Diego de Velásquez, Las Meninas, 1656, 318 x 276 cm, oil on canvas, Prado, Madrid. After José Aparicio, Glories of Spain, engraving, after a painting of 1815–18, now lost, Biblioteca...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...et al., 2007). Symbolic The words we speak or the gestures we make have no inherent meaning. Rather, they gain their significance from an agreed-upon meaning. When we use symbols to communicate, we assume that the other person shares our symbol system . . . these symbolic meanings are conveyed both verbally and nonverbally’ (Martin and Nakayama, 2010). Intentional and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...et cetera. So we looked all these things up. I learned about Grunt. And we started, kind of this step forward from taking this from a prototype or a proof of concept to something that could be a little bit more. And the whole time we were kind of like, what are getting into here? It wasn’t ever like, OK, we’re going for this, we’re doing this. But we started getting...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...et it also testifies to the enduring popularity of those plays. Shakespeare had many gifted colleagues in the play-writing business, but only two – Webster and Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) – are graced with roles in this enormously popular mainstream movie about the late sixteenth-century theatre scene. This course will look at Webster’s most well-known play,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...et al., 2010). BA Decorative Art graduate – freelance glassmaker, button maker, gallery employee and trainer ‘I started off by working in a gallery. […] The staff were wonderful and I started teaching there; that was a big break. […] Now I work in a gallery one day a week, I work as an invigilator (which is quite a menial job but it gives me a chance to think), I...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...et al., 1977). Furthermore, the crime may take place in poor lighting and at some distance away. Research demonstrates that beyond a certain distance, and depending on the light, identification may be problematic. Researchers tested participants’ ability to recognise a target’s face at seven distances and nine illumination levels. Immediately after seeing the target...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...et al. as ‘robust networks of people, artifacts, and institutions that generate, share, and maintain specific knowledge about the human and natural worlds’, and include individuals, organisations, routines, shared norms and practices (2013, p. 5). It’s useful to adopt this inclusive definition, for example, it would include this course, or an archive or a library,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Système Internationale (SI) or International System, on which the metric system is based, and imperial. Both of these will be covered over the next two weeks, and this week will look in particular at measuring length. Watch the course author Maria Townsend introduce Week 1: Maria Townsend: This is my height measured in books, not a common unit of measurement but still an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs