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Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...English visitor to Venice on Ascension Day (the Christian festival marking the day when Christ is believed to have ascended into heaven) in 1734. (Figure 1 shows the ceremony in 1730.) There are some unfamiliar words here. The Doge was the elected ruler of Venice, and the procurators were officials of the city. The Pope’s nuncio was a diplomat sent from the Vatican....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...English word ‘nostalgia’, which might quite literally mean something more like ‘homesickness’ than the idea of longing for the past which it carries today). A whole strand of the Trojan War tradition seems to have revolved around the nostoi of the Greek heroes after Troy; you may remember that the bard Phemius sings of the Greeks’ homecomings in the first book...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...English education system. Transitions happen to all of us throughout our lives. Some are common to most of us, such as starting school or becoming a parent. Major transitions such as these are like milestones in our lives – we pass through them and look back at them. When we look back at them we remember how we felt at the time and this can affect how we feel about...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...English. This course uses the English translations of terms. As you saw just now, the form of a tonal piece of music is based on one particular note of the tonic triad, which is prolonged (normally through the bulk of the piece) in the top voice of the harmony. This note is called the primary tone (or the head-note). In Example 5, A (the third of the tonic chord F major)...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...English and relatable examples. As Anvar discusses in the video, policy research can take many forms, and you will look at these later in the section. However, when starting your policy research, it is important to have a clear aim or research question which will then guide your research and analysis. You will learn more about this in the next two sections: research...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...ENGLISH SINGING] So there’s been such an upsurge in manual drilling. This probably is a reflection of the fact of population growth and the demand, and as well as, because the municipal water supplies from the state’s water agencies and corporations are not keeping up with the demand, so that a lot of people, most middle income households, now have to provide their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...English, which she’d claimed not to speak. By dawn, Angelina’s telling me about the family history she’s started writing, which she’d like to pick up again, and inviting me to stay with her in Sicily. How could something as simple as staying awake overnight bring about such a transformation? Unpicking the mechanism isn’t straightforward: we still don’t fully...
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Article 15 mins
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...English clockmaker who invented the accurate means of establishing longitude. However, maps produced in the USA, for example, often have the Americas in the centre. Key Maps should have a key (sometimes called a legend) which describes and explains the symbols used to depict features on the map. We may be accustomed to the symbols used by our Ordnance Survey, but maps are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs