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Consulting the oracle at Delphi
History & The Arts

Consulting the oracle at Delphi

...Histories’ where you can explore Herodotus’ narrative alongside other sources to help you extend your research and understanding. You may like to take a look at the Timeline, to put some of the narratives in the context of other historical events of the period. Interpreting the oracle's utterances Herodotus suggests one of the main differences between Greeks and...
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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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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
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...history...[Close up of a bucket of popcorn] Film, from its beginning, was considered a realist medium because its mechanical reproduction by a photochemical process appears to ‘catch reality on the wing’. Although it is also the ‘dream factory’, ‘the camera never lies’, so it is an eyewitness whose evidence holds up in the court of history, an image sustained...
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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
The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland
Society, Politics & Law

The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland

...families. Transcript Further reading and references Anderson, B. (1983) Imagined communities. London. Verso. Billig, M. (1995). Banal nationalism. London. Sage. Cruikshank, J. (1998) The Social life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. London. University of Nebraska Press. Erikson, E. H. (1980 [1959]) Identity and the life cycle, New York, W. W....
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English: Language of opportunity
Languages

English: Language of opportunity

...has increased. English in Malaysia In Malaysia there was a concern that not having English as a national language might hamper economic growth. Speaking English in the U.K Raghavendra and Nandini's families have had a relationship with English for many generations. Speaking English in Canada For many migrants moving to Canada English is essential for beginning a career....
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Video 43 mins
Management in Chinese cultures
Money & Business

Management in Chinese cultures

...family and respect for authority. Does the enduring success of this approach have important lessons for us in the West, or is this management style increasingly redundant, as economies and companies internationalise and mature? This album visits several companies in Asia to explore the relationship between value systems and business management. This material forms part of...
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Audio 29 mins