Learn about the UK's 2015 general election: how does the system work, what is at stake, and how will it affect you? Whether or not you have a vote, if you want to gain a better understanding of UK polls and political issues, join us for discussion and up-to-date insight before and after polling day....

Karl der Große gründete das erste nachantike westeuropäische Großreich und gilt als Schöpfer eines Kulturverbandes, der bis heute europäische Identität stiftet. Doch nennt man ihn deshalb zurecht "Pater Europae"?

Find out how to promote informed policies towards equity and social transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This course explores how and why Japan, a late-comer to modernization, emerged as an industrial power and the world's second-richest nation, notwithstanding its recent difficulties. We are particularly concerned with the historical development of technology in Japan especially after 1945, giving particular...

Find out how to get the most out of university and college open days and UCAS Exhibitions.

This free five-module online introductory course gives you the essential concepts, techniques, and skills to effectively work with data and produce compelling data stories under tight deadlines. This course is open to anyone in the world with an Internet connection who wants to tell stories with data...

This course explores how gender shaped the historical experiences and cultural productions in the North American West during the time it was being explored, settled, and imagined. The North American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provides a fascinating case study of the shifting...

Whether you live in a city or not, urbanisation affects you. Learn more about the impact and challenge of urbanisation worldwide.

Creativity is an acquired skill that improves with practice. Creativity changes the world and enriches people’s lives. It takes two skills: “discovery” - discovering new ideas, and “delivery” – implementing ideas, using proven tools and methods. This course, on “discovery”, will provide proven tools...

Learn about enhancing learning and teaching in this third course in the Foundations of University Learning and Teaching program.

This course covers major theorists and theoretical schools since the late 19th century. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Bourdieu, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Foucault, Gramsci, and others.

This class has been reorganized to focus primarily on the War in Iraq. As in previous years, the class still examines war in cross-cultural perspective, asking whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American...

This course enables students to develop their understanding of research methods, and confidence in designing a research project, choosing and executing appropriate methods, and assessing its intellectual/academic rigour. This course is about demystifying research and research methods. It will outline...

A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, and networks — in any amount, to create a better world. This course will empower you to practice philanthropy more effectively and make your giving more meaningful to both you and those you strive to help. Giving 2.0: The...

Enhance your practice and subject knowledge as a primary or secondary school teacher of Computing.

This course offers an evidence-based analysis of globalization that addresses what is happening to us personally as well as economically amidst the market-led processes of global integration. Particular attention is paid to the ways market-led macro-economic reforms associated with globalization (such...

Higher education professionals, new PhD graduates, newly hired university educators and research scientists, and others interested in enhancing their teaching techniques in a university setting will acquire in this six-week course the foundational knowledge of the science of teaching and learning and...

The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history. This course examines its origins, course and outcomes. The French Revolution is one of the great turning-points in history.In 1789 huge numbers of French peasants, urban workers and middle-class people successfully rebelled...

Learn life-saving skills to treat choking, burns, wounds or cardiac arrest in children through this free online first aid course.

Learn about and explore tools to incorporate Common Core literacy standards into your content area. In this course you will explore Literacy Design Collaborative resources, and develop a plan to use one of those resources within your context. The Common Core State Standards are new and will challenge...