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Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...prompted to revisit the site later, both to look at the ‘Words’ section again – and also to work through the ‘Sentences’ section, which you should leave to one side for now.) In line with the ‘little and often’ approach that you are advised to adopt for learning Latin, you may wish to break down your time working on the ‘Sounds’ and ‘Words’ sections...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...concepts of digital research such as digitisation, metadata, ‘big data’, the FAIR principles, data wrangling, qualitative and quantitative analysis and knowledge infrastructures. While this course will not teach you how to use specific tools or programming languages, it will provide you with a good theoretical foundation upon which you can build more specialised...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...prompt further questions evaluate your diagramming skills develop, and take responsibility for, your own understanding of complexity appreciate some ethical implications of being a systems practitioner...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 1 Overview of the unit - [Figure 1] Figure 1 An activity-sequence diagram showing the structure of the unit When...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...concept of ‘customers’ and who customers are in different work contexts. The financial information reading and activity cover the idea of financial stakeholders and their interests in an organisation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from an Open University course B629 Marketing and finance...Stakeholders in marketing and finance: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...concepts) associated with different words, so that confusions can be avoided. Sometimes they will even introduce new words (technical terms, as they are called) in order represent ideas and distinctions for which we have no everyday words. This concern with the clarification of ideas is central to philosophy, and it has applications in many areas. For example, politicians...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...concept to define. Thinking about health can illuminate the relationship between the modern world and the ancient Mediterranean worlds, while looking at ideas from another culture can help us rethink our own assumptions about health. Do we look back to the Greeks and Romans as supreme models of health, due to a simple diet, free from preservatives? Or do we focus on our...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...concept. Gender and Society, 19, 829-859. Fausto-Sterling, A., 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, New York: Basic Books. Joel, D., Tarrasch, R., Berman, Z., Mukamel, M., & Ziv, E., 2014. Queering gender: studying gender identity in ‘normative’ individuals. Psychology & Sexuality, 5(4), 291-321. Joel, D., Berman, Z., Tavor, I.,...
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Article 15 mins
Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...concept of “roundtrip songs” (cantes de ida y vuelta) was created to refer to the mix of Andalusian and Latin American songs that, after being transformed by the Americans, travelled back to Spain in their new hybrid forms. Spaniards found in the New World participatory bodies. The native Americans as well as the slaves of African origin displayed a fondness for...
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