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Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?
History & The Arts

Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?

...find out. @@PLUGINFILE@@/QuizWhichBront%C3%ABsisterwroteit.h5p?embed=1 Find out more Written in blood: Family, sex and violence in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre Prof. Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work Explore the OU/BBC drama on the Brontë sisters, To Walk Invisible. Practise the Brontë’s art with our free courses Take it further with The Open University...
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Activity 10 mins
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...history, the idea of justice has been understood and defined in many different ways. This section considers some of the key forms of justice which still influence how we understand justice today. Distributive and corrective justice Writing in the fourth century BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was responsible for some of the earliest views on justice. Aristotle...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...history and experiences of people racialised as non-white and, for many others, it will be an affirmation of being in the rightful place in our diverse twenty-first century. Whatever your background, the course will give you the opportunity to hear from contributors from a range of backgrounds, lived experiences, thoughts and voices, which are designed to help inform,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...History Unit Tim Scoones discusses his inspirations, Springwatch, citizen science, archive and new media. ...Tim Scoones Tim Scoones is an executive producer at the BBC Natural History Unit, currently specializing in live broadcasting with programs such as Springwatch and 24/7 Wild and also in pop-science, which includes Nature’s Weirdest Events and Natural Born...
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Video 40 mins
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...history of depression in his family, but can only surmise that genetic flaws created the fatal cocktail of chemicals that compelled him to end his life. Research in this field is evolving. Last year, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital identified 17 genetic variations that appeared to increase the risk of depression, in an analysis of DNA data from more than...
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Article 15 mins
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...history, and he would have all to do for himself: his powers would be expended in the first preparations. Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind. Shakespeare's youth fell in a time when the English...
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...history. Bringing together different regions, the tales respatialize the Acadian diaspora in a geo-cultural imaginary space and undergird the transnational connection. [Zachary Richard] Zachary Richard Introduction The history of the Cajuns, the French-speaking minority living in Cajun Country, or Acadiana, in southwest Louisiana, is a story about transnational migration...
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Article 15 mins
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...history? This free course, Art and visual culture: medieval to modern, explores the fundamental issues raised by the study of western art and visual culture over the last millennium. It moves from discussing the role of the artist and the functions of art during the medieval and Renaissance periods to considering the concept and practice of art in the era of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs