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Children’s rights
How do children fit in to our society? This course will help you to understand the issues surrounding children's rights as well as examining the implications of seeing children as citizens. You will also explore the meaning of childhood and analyse children's needs. Course learning outcomes After studying this course, you shou..
$10.00
Climate change
Climate change is a key issue on today's social and political agenda. This course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming. Course learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: - understand the physical basis of the natural greenhouse effect, including the meaning of t..
$400.00
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
This course, Collaborative problem solving for community safety, offers a range of techniques for community police officers, other community-based public service professionals and members of community groups working to solve problems collaboratively and creatively. It examines some of the ways which OU specialists in creative pr..
$10.00
Companies and financial accounting
This course, Companies and financial accounting, introduces you to the legal characteristics of limited companies and how limited companies raise finance through ordinary shares and loan capital. It also introduces the interests of company stakeholders, and looks at three different perspectives on companies and their role in soc..
$900.00
Company law in context
The legal issues involved in setting up and running a business can be complex and confusing, especially when some of the terms used don't seem to have clear meanings. Company law in context is a course from the College of Law, offering a basic introduction to the legal concepts of companies, partnerships, assets and liabilities...
$200.00
Comparing stars
Stars can necessarily be observed only at a distance. Comparing stars is a 16-hour course that introduces the HertzsprungRussell diagram, an essential tool in understanding the nature of stars. You should have some understanding of the basic stellar properties of luminosity and temperature in order to get the most from the cours..
$50.00
Computers and computer systems
Computers and processors are ubiquitous in everyday life, and they're not only found in your PC. This course, Computers and computer systems, introduces the different parts of a computer system and their use of binary code. Using the examples of kitchen scales, a digital camera and a computer artwork the course, with the help of..
$800.00
Design
This course looks at the process of design, from assessing the complexity of design as an activity to exposing the difficulty in making general conclusions about how designers work. You will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety of designed objects and evaluate the impact of this innovation. Course learning outcomes ..
$100.00
Energy in buildings
Themes covered in this 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..
$800.00
Ethics in science?
This course, Ethics in science? discusses how scientists have a moral and ethical responsibility to consider whether they should carry out an experiment. In this short course you will learn of the first clinical trials undertaken for scurvy and small pox and gain an understanding of how much more rigorous today’s clinical trials..
$200.00