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It is an online course, which lasts 6 weeks and you spend 2 hours weekly on it. The course has 3 different rates. You may join it free, upgrade this course with $64 or buy Unlimited for $200.

This course will look at the life and works of William Shakespeare and take you from his birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon to the Globe Theatre in London, from where he secured his central place in English literature.

We will look at five of Shakespeare’s plays with the help of actors and experts from around the world. They will explain and explore the universal themes Shakespeare addressed in his work.

What topics will you cover?

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

Much Ado About Nothing

The Tempest

Macbeth

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Explore the life and works of William Shakespeare.

Investigate five of Shakespeare’s plays and look at the universal themes Shakespeare addressed in his work.

Reflect on words and expressions that Shakespeare introduced to the English language.

Who is the course for?

This course is for people who are learning English and interested in the language and legacy of William Shakespeare.

The material is designed for non-native English speakers who have studied English to around intermediate level (approximately B1 on the CEFR).

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Exploring English: Shakespeare - Online Course - FutureLearn

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Improve your English language skills by looking at the life and works of Shakespeare and his enduring popularity in this online course from the British Council.

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Many children still do not know how to use their time and learn correctly. Therefore, I want to advise you a course in  Improving Your Study Techniques at FutureLearn.
Through the course you will learn to become a better student by learning to apply the ‘three-step model’ of studying: previewing, summarising and revising. You will consider your use of time and learn how to make a realistic study plan. You will also learn how to tackle procrastination, deal with stress and keep motivated while studying.
This course has been ranked as one of the best online courses of all time by online course aggregator class central. It is for anyone currently studying including full-time students and people studying for professional or personal development. It might also be useful to anyone involved in the learning process, for example teachers, student advisors and family.
You will cover the following topics:

Study preparation

The three-step model of studying: previewing, summarising, revision

Study planning

Attending lectures

Exam techniques

Procrastination

Stress

Motivation

This course will be useful to every student. You will be able to Identify the most important topics of a text, develop a clear and useful summary of a text, apply effective revision methods, design a study plan that really works for you, reflect on your tendency to procrastinate, explore stress reduction, reflect on your study motivation.
The course lasts 4 weeks (2 hours per week).
You have free access to the course for 6 weeks with restrictions. But if you want to get a certificate and access to ALL suitable short-term courses with additional benefits during the year, then you can buy this course for $15.83/month or $189.99 for a year.

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Improving Your Study Techniques - Online Course

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Learn effective and long-lasting study techniques with this online course from the University of Groningen.

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Blended and Online Learning Design - Teaching Course Online - FutureLearn

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I believe children will remember every task they have done and its content as well if it is out of ordinary. That's why I always wonder how to make tasks for children both entertaining and full of useful information.
I found it interesting to take a course in Blended and Online Learning Design at Future Learn. The course includes school teachers and higher education teachers and lectures and aims to support educators' enthusiasm and innovations and learning online. Throughout the course, you’ll be learning from teaching experts at the UCL Institute of Education. You will be able to explore a range of digital tools and resources including the Learning Designer tool which is a free online tool. This course lasts for 3 weeks (4 hour a week), and you will cover such topics as:

The nature of learning design in the context of blended and online learning;

How to optimise your learning management system for your students;

The Learning Designer tool and its uses for borrowing, planning, creating and sharing design ideas;

Implementing online learning across your institution.

As my future profession involves teaching children, it would be interesting and useful for me to learn how to transform boring lessons in unforgettable and enjoyable ones because beautifully designed tasks and different interactions in them is the best way to attract child's attention.

Relating to the price, you are able to have limited access to course content for 5 weeks for free. However, if you would like to discuss your learning in comments and get the certificate when you're eligible, you are able to buy it for 5 265 rubles.

Here's the link:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-and-online-learning-design#extra-benefits

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Develop the skills you need to teach blended and online learning

Online learning is the future of teaching. This three-week teaching course aims to support teachers' own innovations in teaching and learning online, whether you teach in a school, college or university.

See what's possible with digital technologies and online learning methods

You'll understand the nature of learning design in the context of both blended and wholly online learning, and will explore the Conversational Framework concept; the notion that the teaching-learning process is an interactive exchange of concepts and practice, using the ideas of social construction and collaborative learning.

You'll explore a range of digital tools and resources, including the Learning Designer tool, a free online tool to help teachers and lecturers design teaching and learning activities and share their learning designs with one another across all subjects.

Optimise both blended and online learning methods for your students

Through using this tool, you'll learn how to optimise synchronous and asynchronous learning, and will explore how to implement videos, screencasts, forums, shared learning designs, polls, quizzes and to bring a selection of digital tools into your teaching techniques.

You'll assess a wide range of learning designs and formative assessment methods for both blended and online learning in order to achieve specific types of learning outcomes.

Learn from teaching experts at UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and the community

Throughout the course, you'll be learning from teaching experts at the UCL Institute of Education.

It's rated as the number one education faculty in the world university rankings, and provides expertise in teaching and educational research across all sectors, primary to higher education, and across all main subject areas.

What topics will you cover?

The nature of learning design in the context of blended and online learning

The Conversational Framework as a tool for thinking about learning design and assessment

Digital tools and resources, and how to optimise your learning management system for your students

The Learning Designer tool and its uses for borrowing, planning, creating and sharing design ideas with other teachers, across and within subject areas

Learning designs and types of formative assessment for blended and online learning to achieve different types of learning outcome

Implementing online learning across your institution

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

Develop your teaching as active learning designs for blended and online teaching for different learning outcomes

Collaborate with other participants in a teacher community of practice

Apply your learning through and about online pedagogies and digital tools

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Who is the course for?

This course is best suited for teachers in all sectors of formal education, primarily within the UK.

This includes primary and secondary school teachers and further education and higher education teachers and lecturers across all subject areas.

What software or tools do you need?

All the tools we use are free and open to all, or are optional for participants to explore if they wish.

In particular we'll be using the UCL Learning Designer tool.

We'd recommend you use a laptop/computer to complete this course.

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps, but you can complete them as quickly or slowly as you like

Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities

Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners

Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course

Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning

Whenever you're ready, mark each step as complete, you're in control

Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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Blended and Online Learning Design - Teaching Course Online - FutureLearn

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Online learning is the future of teaching. This three-week teaching course aims to support teachers' own innovations in teaching and learning online, whether you teach in a school, college or university.

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Speak English Professionally: In Person, Online & On the Phone

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Speak English Professionally: In Person, Online & On the Phone

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Speak English Professionally: In Person, Online & On the Phone

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Brief description of the course

In this 5 week course, you will learn how to identify and make a strong personal introduction. You will develop and demonstrate the speaking skills for group discussions: how to agree or disagree, how to clarify, restate and summarize. You will review and practice how to give information and respond to requests on the phone. You will study and role play effective interviewing. You will  prepare and give a sales “pitch”, introducing a product or service. Throughout the course, you will adjust how you speak English and become more fluent and accurate when you speak. You will demonstrate culturally appropriate body language and tone.

This course is offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology.
763, 842 people already enrolled the course.
Based on 2,758 reviews the course has a rating of 4.7 .

Fee
The fee is RUB 3,552 per month to continue learning after 7-day free trial ends.

Contents

Each module provides 3-4 hours to complete and consists of several videos, readings and quizzes.

WEEK 1. Communicate in Person: The Power of Face to Face Connections
Through the lessons this module, you will be able to work on professional conversational vocabulary and proper word stress and intonation. After the final lesson you will be able to present a short "Elevator Speech."

WEEK 2. Meet and Talk Online
This module looks at group discussion situations with the focus on video conferencing. By looking at various scenarios, you will learn key language for group discussion as well as gain some business etiquette.

WEEK 3. Powerful Phone Talk
In this module, you will improve language use and pronunciation for phone conversations. Trickier pronunciation distinctions in can/can't and numbers will be the focus for pronunciation.

WEEK 4. Keys to a Strong Interview
Through the lessons in this module, you will be able to prepare yourself better for an interview in English. The three lesson will focus on improving your body language, pronunciation for -ed and -s ending words, and a practice interview questions.

WEEK 5. Put It All Together: Presentations
In this final module, you will have the chance to put all your newly gained language skills together into a presentation. The two lessons will help you organize and deliver your best presentation.

Why I am interested in this course

I was personally attracted by the opportunity to improve my pronunciation and fluency, and to learn how to use culture to help me speak correctly. Also it's implied that one will complete self- and peer-evaluations as they work through the course.

*In addition
According to the website information by the end of the course one will be able to identify how culture influences their speech, use statements and responses for a much bigger variety of situations and much more. So, click the link attached above to check and learn more about the course.

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Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology. Do you want to speak better English? This course will help you reach that goal. Speak English ... Enroll for free.

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One of the biggest problem in studies for me is to pull myself together and do all the amount of work I have to do gradually, effectively and without procrastination. I think this issue is quite common so I found the course which helps students and even professionals to deal with it. The course is called “Learning How To Learn: Powerful mental to help you master tough subjects” and developed by Deep Teaching Solutions.

It lasts for 4 weeks and it is absolute free.

This course gives you an easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines.

Week 1: What is Learning?

Although living brains are very complex, this module uses metaphor and analogy to help simplify matters. You will discover several fundamentally different modes of thinking, and how you can use these modes to improve your learning. You will also be introduced to a tool for tackling procrastination, be given some practical information about memory, and discover surprisingly useful insights about learning and sleep.

Week 2: Chunking

Chunks are compact packages of information that your mind can easily access. You’ll find out how you can form chunks, how you can use them to improve your understanding and creativity with the material, and how chunks can help you to do better on tests. You’ll also explore illusions of competence in learning, the challenges of overlearning, and the advantages of interleaving.

Week 3: Procrastination and Memory

In this module, there is a talk about two intimately connected ideas—procrastination and memory. Building solid chunks in long term memory--chunks that are easily accessible by your short term memory—takes time. This is why learning to handle procrastination is so important.

Week 4: Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential

In this module the talk will be about important ideas and techniques that will enhance your ability to learn. You’ll also discover how to more profitably interact with fellow learners, how to recognize your own strengths, and how to avoid the “imposter syndrome.” Ultimately, you will learn more about the joys of living a life filled with learning!

Using these approaches, no matter what your skill levels in topics you would like to master, you can change your thinking and change your life. Let's develop our skills together!

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Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects

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Harvard University. Shakespeare's Life and Work

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I became interested in classical literature in high school, and it was often possible to get ideas for my projects, essays, and short stories from it. And so, recently I came across this course from Harvard University, so that's what I chose for this little presentation.

This course is called "Shakespeare's Life and Work" and it tells how to analyze his texts, about the true meaning of his works, raises the question of whether his plays belong to the past or the present. The course consists of several short videos shot on location in England. It is free, lasts 4 weeks, which means that you can practice 5-7 hours a week. The first part of the course describes Shakespeare's biography: his childhood, education, family, and career. This course describes Shakespeare's biography: his childhood, education, family, and career. In the second part, various points of view are considered on how important the author himself is for considering the plots of his works. In addition, the third part of the course examines the historical context in Shakespeare's texts.

By the end of the first unit, you will be able to:

Describe Shakespeare's childhood, education, and family life, determining how the facts of his life might have informed his playwriting.

Evaluate different viewpoints on the "author problem," which relates to how relevant the author and his/her intentions are to interpreting a text.

Generate an original interpretation of The Comedy of Errors that relates to Shakespeare's life and/or intentions.

By the end of the second unit, you will be able to:

Describe Shakespeare's unlikely entry to the theater world, as well as the facts of London, the Bankside, and the increasingly professionalized theater industry.

Assess the view that Shakespeare's plays are embedded in their time and so require historical analysis to unlock what they "mean".

Analyze a Shakespeare play or passage through knowledge of historical context.

By the end of the last (but not least) unit, you will be able to:

Describe original performance practices, Shakespeare's death, and his legacy.

Analyze a Shakespearean scene in performance, contrasting different approaches.

Evaluate the viewpoint that Shakespeare's plays belong to the present and that we should interpret/perform them as they are most "relevant" now.

The instructor of this course is Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including books about Shakespear. Also, he is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare.

This course allows you not only to broaden our horizons but also to learn new ways of analyzing literature through the prism of the author's biography.

Link: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/shakespeares-life-and-work?delta=1

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Let's start with a simple statement: i love Theater in all its manifestations, whether it be opera, musicals or a simple play - it is all stunning and never ceases to amaze me. So its only logical for me to be interested in its history, especially in the history of its most famous contributors. The course is called ''19th century opera: Mayerbeer, Mozart and Verdi'' and it goes over the cultural impact of canonical operas, composed in 1800s.
the course invites you to study:

The technologies behind 1830s French opera performances

The relationships among major players in the premiere of Les Huguenots

How Romanticism differed from the optimism of the Enlightenment

The different singing styles in French Grand Opera

Innovations in staging between the three periods of opera

How Wagner represented characters and situations with musical themes

The main instructor of the course is Thomas Forest Kelly - Professor of Music in Harvard University. He goes over three expository operas of the time -Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello - and explains their significance in musical and theatrical culture and history.
The course lasts six weeks and asks for three to five hours a week for you to commit to learning. The course is entirely self-paced so you do not need to worry if you skipped and online lecture - everything is recorded for your convenience. The course itself is free, but if you decide you need a certificate of completion - you'll have to pay 139 us $ which can be roughly converted to 10.000 rubles.

So, time is money, especially in our day and age. The more qualifications you have - the better future you'll achive. So good luck.

Here's a link to the course.
Enjoy!

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/19th-century-opera-meyerbeer-wagner-verdi?delta=2

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What you'll learn

The technologies behind 1830s French opera performances

The relationships among major players in the premiere of Les Huguenots

How Romanticism differed from the optimism of the Enlightenment

The different singing styles in French Grand Opera

Innovations in staging between the three periods of opera

How Wagner represented characters and situations with musical themes

Course description

Travel through central Europe in the 1800s to experience the premieres of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Wagner's Das Rheingold, and Verdi's Otello. A complement to our course on 18th-century opera, you'll be introduced to opera through an in-depth study of these canonical works. You'll learn about the musical details of each opera and the cultural influence of the works by understanding the circumstances of its composition, premiere performance, and its legacy and significance today.

First, step inside the Paris Opéra in 1836 for the premiere performance of Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera Les Huguenots. Go behind the scenes to discover the people and technology that made this type of opera such a thrilling combination of music and spectacle, important in its time but little-known today. You'll learn about the characteristics of opera from this period, those involved in producing the premiere, and the social context surrounding Les Huguenots.

Then, journey to Bayreuth in 1876 for the first production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, the opening opera of his four-part saga Der Ring des Nibelungen. Discover how Wagner used musical themes to tell this mythical story and learn about the advancements in stage technology that brought this work to life.

Finally, travel to Milan in 1887 for the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's second-to-last opera, Otello. Learn how Verdi's musical approach to this Shakespearean tragedy, his first opera after a fifteen-year hiatus, was influenced by the operatic innovations of his contemporary, Richard Wagner.

Enroll now to get to know the music of these three amazing operas, the 19th-century cultural context in which they were performed, and how they remain relevant in today's complex musical landscape.

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The technologies behind 1830s French opera performances The relationships among major players in the premiere of Les Huguenots How Romanticism differed from the optimism of the Enlightenment The different singing styles in French Grand Opera Innovations in staging between the three periods of opera How Wagner represented characters and situations with musical themes Travel through central Europe in the 1800s to experience the premieres of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Wagner's Das Rheingold, and Verdi's Otello.

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It so happened that my first foreign language was English, so I was always interested in understanding the culture of the language being studied. Therefore, when I recently looked through various courses, I found a course called Learning English: Language and Culture, I immediately liked it. This course was developed by British Council.

On this  course, you will learn about British life and culture, and improve your English language skills and knowledge. This course lasts 4 weeks and you only need to study 2 hours a week. The curriculum is following:

Week 1: English: the global language

Why is English so widely used?

How does technology help you learn?

Language focus: passives

Useful expressions

Week 2: Music: making a difference

What does British music mean to you?

Music and society

Language focus: clauses

Week 3: Countryside: a green and pleasant land

What do people think about the British countryside?

A visit to the Lake District in north-west England

A look at the different parts of the UK

Language focus: description

Week 4: Literature: books and identity

British literature

Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

Anniversaries in British literature

Language focus: comparatives and superlatives

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

Reflect on different popular culture topics as well as ways of life in the UK

Explore English as a global language

Develop your listening skills as you watch authentic examples of people speaking English

Reflect on language in use

Develop language skills and practise using new language

Discuss the countryside, music, and literature

The course has 3 different ways to learn:
1) You can join it free
2) Upgrade for 64$
3) Unlimited for 190$

Follow the link to learn more details:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/explore-english-language-culture

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I want to tell you about such a course as "Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation" at Future Learn. This course is useful for people who want to learn a language and learn more about it. It is vital to note that this course is suitable for those who study linguistics and want to learn about other opportunities.
The course lasts for eight weeks. On this course, you’ll learn about the range of applications of corpus data in the study of language both in linguistics and beyond it, in the social sciences for example. Importantly, you’ll also get a sense of what it’s like to study at Lancaster University. You’ll have lectures, practical tasks, readings, additional lectures, and discussions available to you each week.

I am very interested in this course.

It will help me in further language learning, because Corpus Linguistics is now seen as the study of linguistic phenomena through large collections of machine-readable texts: corpora. These are used within a number of research areas going from the Descriptive Study of the Syntax of a Language to Prosody or Language Learning, to mention but a few.

Such material can help to write a bachelor's or master's thesis.

The corpus linguistics is use of corpora in areas as diverse as discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and language learning and teaching.

The main task of the corpus linguist is not to find the data but to analyse it. For example, to determine how the usage of a particular sound, word, or syntactic construction varies.
In conclusion, you receive a certificate of completion of this course, it is very important.

"Language defines what we are."

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Harvard University. ChinaX Book Club: Five Authors, Five Books, Five Views of China.

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Harvard University. ChinaX Book Club: Five Authors, Five Books, Five Views of China.

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Recently I faced the challenge of blocking many well-known chinese writers in China. Some of my favorite novels were banned and they still are. That's why I have been interested in a course about the chinese literature at first sight.

The course is called "ChinaX Book Club: Five Authors, Five Books, Five Views of China" and it is offered by the Harvard University. The course lasts for 5 week and you are supposed to spend about 2 hours a week for it. It is designed for anyone interested in the topic. The course is totally free, but what you need is to sign in and know the English language. If you are not fluent in  English, don't worry - the course is provided with the English subs.

So, you will be introduced with the topic by David Wang, Professor of Chinese Literature, teaching in Harvard University. As it is obvious from the name of the course, you will be required to read 5 books by 5 modern chinese authors. The style, the symbols and different meanings hidden in the plot, the metaphors and other things will be discussed at the lessons.

If you accept and complete the course, you will:
- Survey the transformation of contemporary Chinese literature through direct engagement with five books and author interviews
- Explore contemporary China from a range of perspectives including politics, ethics, culture, and gender
- Understand how literature (particularly in the context of China) can become a source of political intervention and articulate tensions between authoritarianism and individual freedom.
- Develop your own approaches to modern literature, culture, and history via close reading, critical discussion, and analysis
- Express ideas more clearly and confidently through the study of primary and secondary sources.

So, less talking, more doing - here is a link, enjoy the course if you want, I have already taken it and I have no regrets.

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/chinax-book-club-five-authors-five-books-five-views-china?delta=1

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An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.

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The Open University is one of the UK’s largest academic institutions and the first one which started to provide pupils with distance learning.
There are loads of courses, which have already been taken by thousands of students, and I'm not an exclusion. Looking through all the variants I decided to take a course in Arts and Humanities focusing on Philosophy. This is one of several specialist routes available in this BA.
The degree takes from 3 to 6 years depending on how you study: part or full time. It is divided into 3 stages,  each comprising 120 credits. Credits are successfully completed parts of a course. One credit represents about 10 hours of study.
The degree starts by developing your understanding of the world. You will then take two extra philosophy modules, discovering more about the ideas of philosophers.
At Stages 2 and 3 you will continue to study the main subject  in combination with either a second specialism in arts and humanities or study arts and humanities modules. Also, at this stages there is a discussion of 11 essential topics:
- the self and personal identity;
- philosophy of religion;
- ethics;
- knowledge and science;
- the mind;
- the relation between ourselves and society;
- truth in fiction;
- war; reason and action;
- the value of life;
- knowledge and reason.
This degree course relevant to a wide variety of careers, including:
- advertising, journalism, publishing, creative industries and public relations
- education
- legal work
- human resources.

The current fee for 60 credits is £3,168; for 120 credits, which is equivalent to a year's full-time study, is £6,336. The total cost of the qualification would be £19,008.

The link to the course:
https://www.openuniversity.edu/courses/qualifications/r14-p#course-details