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Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A276 Classical Latin: the language of ancient Rome ...Getting started on classical Latin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the main links between English and Latin pronounce Latin words confidently have an understanding of basic English grammar in order to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K219 Critical issues in health and wellbeing...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline to what extent a person’s ‘lifestyle’ impacts upon their health and wellbeing describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...course, Evolution through natural selection, we describe the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin in his book, first published in 1859, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. We will look at natural selection as Darwin did, taking inheritance for granted, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...Open University course DD105 Introduction to criminology...An introduction to crime and criminology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: provide a basic definition of ‘crime’ demonstrate that ideas about what a crime is and what it is not are often contested provide a definition of what criminology is and the subject matter it...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...Open University short course on understanding musical scores. CATHERINE Here we are at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where we've been recording some films for this course and talking with musicians about how they work with musical scores. NAOMI Have you ever seen a musical score in a museum and wondered why it was so important? The object itself may...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...Open University course A224 Inside music. It covers ground similar to that found in the syllabus of the Associated Board Theory Grades 1–3 (ABRSM, 2018). Sound files have been provided for all the music notation examples as it is important for you to be able to listen to the sounds represented by the notation. There is an audio bar below each notated example; click on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 4: Texture, dynamics and structure: Introduction - This week you will learn about how to listen for three new elements of music – texture, dynamics and structure. These three elements bring together aspects of what you have already learned about rhythm, melody, harmony and timbre exploring how sounds weave...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A234 Understanding music....Listening for form in popular music: Introduction - This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. You will study the form of several popular songs, including ‘Be My Baby’, ‘Suspicious Minds’, ‘Midnight Special’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs