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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...course, Exploring Ovid’s big ideas, you will find out why Ovid’s work is still so relevant today. You will meet characters from ancient myth like Actaeon the hunter who was turned into a stag, and Ta’aroa the ancient Pacific Islander god who lived in a shell. And you will discover how ancient stories still give us new ways of thinking about the modern world’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...course ‘Recovery strategies in sport and exercise’ investigates the science behind recovery exploring the physiological processes involved in training and recovery and the potential role of recovery strategies...The ability to recover quickly from an intensive training session or match can be extremely advantageous to sports performers. Sport and fitness participants...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...course, Mental health in society, you will explore and critically reflect on mental health. You will explore the relationship between the lived experiences of individuals, and the society and environment in which they live. Different perspectives, approaches and models of understanding and critiquing mental health will be explored as well as a chance to develop skills in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...course you will explore diverse musical topics through four themes: inclusions and exclusions, practice, technology, and community. You will encounter music from different times, places and genres while being introduced a range of scholarly perspectives on music...Introducing music research provides you with insights into the wide variety of possibilities for studying...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Modelling events in time
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling events in time

...course develops ideas about probability and random processes. Sections 1 and 2 introduce the fundamental ideas of random processes through a series of examples. Section 3 describes a model that is appropriate for events occurring ‘at random’ in such a way that their rate of occurrence remains constant. Section 4 derives the main results from Section 3. Section 5...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...course, Energy in buildings, include reducing heating demand in buildings, heating systems and fuel emissions, and reducing electricity use by appliances. The course looks at the importance of energy in buildings in the UK, investigate heat loss and how to prevent it, ways of increasing building efficiency, decreasing CO2 emissions of different fuels and the use of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...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 academies, before finally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...course, English in the world today, explores the status of the language and its worldwide diversity. It looks at how social and political factors influence people's attitudes towards it, and at the relationship between one's linguistic heritage and sense of identity...How did English become the global force it is today? This free course, English in the world today,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs