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Subject area(s) Business Studies
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Overview
These courses have been developed by representatives from industry together with academics from
the University of Oxford's prestigious Saïd Business School.
They have evolved over the past 7 years with regular evaluation from those delegates who attend the
courses.
These are all one-day intensive courses and provide practical knowledge which should be immediately
relevant to the workplace. All delegates will receive a University of Oxford Certificate of Attendance.
These courses are offered both as open courses and can also be tailored for presentation as an in-
house programme for your organisation.
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The following modules can be studied as part of this programme:
• Business studies (4)

○ Advanced Project Management for Engineers and Scientists
○ Applying Knowledge Management: Principles and Practices
○ Essentials of Project Management for Scientists and Engineers
○ Successful Change Management for Engineers & Scientists
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Islamic Art and Architecture (Online)

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Type Online and Distance Learning

Location Online
Dates Mon 16 May to Fri 29 Jul 2011
Subject area(s) History of Art
CATS points 10
Fees From £180.00
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Course code O10P405ARV
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Overview
This course is for anyone interested in understanding Islamic art and culture, by examining the
relationship between Islamic faith and various art forms.
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Description
Muslim societies produced art of tremendous vitality and diversity for around 1500 years in centres
from Spain and West Africa to South-East Asia and China. Their artistic production includes
architectural monuments such as mosques, palaces, and civic centres to textiles, manuscripts, and
portable objects in ceramic, gold, silver, metal alloys, ivory, and rock crystal. This introductory course
will explore the main stylistic and iconographic themes in Islamic art and highlight the diversity of its
expressions.
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The areas you will cover in this course are:
• Introduction and a starting point.
• Muslim places of worship and devotion.
• Calligraphy and arts of the Qur’an.
• Painting and figural representation in Islam.
• Ceramics of the Muslim world. I
• Muslim metalwork.
• Islamic ornament: Geometry, Arabesque and Calligraphy.
• Arts of the book: Painted and illuminated manuscripts.
• Gardens and Palaces.
• Funerary landscape: tombs, mausoleums, and gardens.
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Certification
This course is accredited and you are expected to take the course for credit. To be awarded credit, you
must (i) participate actively in the online discussion throughout the course with other students and
your tutor; and (ii) complete written contributions satisfactorily. Successful students will receive
credit, awarded by the Board of Studies of Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.
The award will take the form of 10 units of transferable credit at FHEQ level 4 of the Credit
Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS). A transcript detailing the credit will be issued to
successful students.
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Assessment methods
In this course assessment is through two short written pieces, or one longer essay.
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Level and demands

FHEQ level 4, 10 weeks, approx 10 hours per week, therefore a total of about 100 study hours.
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Recommended reading
To participate in the course you will need to have regular access to the Internet and you will need to
buy the following textbook:
Hattstein, M., and Delius, P., (eds.), Islam. Art and Architecture (Könemann, Königswinter, 2007)
ISBN 3833135344
[Or, you may prefer the 2004 hardback edition of the same book ISBN 383311178X]
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Teaching outcomes
By the end of the course:
You will understand:

• the main characteristics of Islamic art and architecture and its regional and dynastic diversity
• the different interpretations of works of art
• the significance of context and patronage for the development of Islamic art and architecture
And you will be able to:

• identify, interpret, and evaluate a range of images and source materials
• use the relevant technical vocabulary in discussing the subject
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Programme Fee
Home/EU Fee: £180.00
Non-EU Fee: £285.00
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Getting Started in Creative Writing (Online)

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Location Online
Dates Wed 27 Apr to Fri 8 Jul 2011
Subject area(s) Creative Writing
CATS points 10
Fees From £270.00
status
Course code O10P399CRV
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Overview
This course gives avid readers the skills necessary to turn a love of the written word into a practical
experience. It introduces the key characteristics of creative writing, and students are supported with
stage-by-stage guidance as they assimilate and put into practice a range of critical and creative
methods. In addition to tutor feedback on the course assignments, participants will be encouraged to
discuss one another's writing in the course forums, and will be given guidance on offering constructive
and useful criticism.
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Description
Beginning with an introduction to writing fiction, this course leads students step-by-step through the
essentials of the craft – including characterization, plotting, description, dialogue and editing –
towards an enhanced understanding of how novels and stories are written. There are also individual
sessions on special topics – such as constructing an effective opening sequence, using imagery
creatively, and working with experimental or other distinctive genres – and the emphasis throughout
is upon developing an individual voice and a confident style while working in a wholly supportive
environment.
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Unit 1: Getting Started - Getting acquainted with one another and the course; autobiographical input;
working with notes; practicing discussion and critique of fiction-writing.
Unit 2: Voice - Developing an individual emphasis; pace and style.
Unit 3: Descriptive Writing - Scene-making: Sharpening the senses; fashioning a world.
Unit 4: Point-of-view - Who tells the story? Owns the story? Making choices about 1st, 2nd and 3rd
-person narrative.
Unit 5: Character - Constructing individuals; back-stories; conflict.
Unit 6: Dialogue - Writing the authentic, the important and the plausible simultaneously.
Unit 7: Plot and Momentum - Patterns of Story; from story to plot; subplots.
Unit 8: Genre and Length - Choices that shape the stories we read; what we expect; how we may
differ.
Unit 9: Theme - What kind of a story will you tell?
Unit 10: Re-writing and Editing - Finishing, polishing, re-making, re-telling, expanding and cutting.
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Course aims
This course aims to provide students with insight into the major aspects affecting creative writing, and
enable them to use these features confidently in their own writing.
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Assessment methods
During this course students will be required to submit one complete short story of approx 500
words, plus a complete short story or the opening of a novel of between 1000 and 1200 words.
Students will have about two weeks to complete each assignment.
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Level and demands

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Recommended reading
To participate in the course you will need to have regular access to the Internet. All of the primary
texts (short stories) used as examples in the course are available online, and in each unit you will find
a link to the appropriate websites.
Recommended, but not required:
• Kaplan, David, Rewriting (A & C Black, 1998) ISBN: 0713648759 - OUT OF PRINT
• Lerner, Betsy, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers (Riverhead, 2008) ISBN:
1573228575
• Lodge, David, ed., The Art of Fiction (Penguin, 1992) ISBN: 0140174923
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Teaching methods
1. Introductory section, outlining key areas of work within each unit.
2. Description of required reading and recommended reading.
3. Presentation of materials taken from additional (eg. online) sources, relevant to each unit.
4. Online discussion forum.
5. Online personal study diary.
6. Area for short responses to literary extracts from key texts.
7. Tutor responses to forum and exercises.
8. Assessment and feedback.
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Teaching outcomes
By the end of this course students will be expected to understand:
1. Key features (such as point-of-view, dialogue, etc) in a fictional work.

2. The practical use of such characteristics in their own writing.
3. How to use these aspects of technical expertise with increased skill and confidence.
By the end of this course students will be expected to have gained the following skills:
1. The ability to recognize and name key features in literature.

2. Knowledge of what effects these features produce and how to undertake their use.
3. Increased confidence in their own use of such features as enhancements to the development of an
individual 'voice' in creative writing.
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Ethics: an introduction (Online)

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Location Online
Dates Wed 27 Apr to Fri 8 Jul 2011
Subject area(s) Philosophy
CATS points 10
Fees From £180.00
status
Course code O10P416PHV
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Overview
In this introduction to ethics, the philosophy of morality, we shall examine four important ethical
theories (virtue ethics, deontologiy, expressivism and utilitarianism), applying them to two practical
questions: the rights of animals and euthanasia. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage in
debate and test your own thinking.
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In this introduction to ethics, the philosophy of morality, we shall be considering questions of both
practice (is lying wrong? Must we keep our promises?) and theory (what makes an action wrong? Is it
only human who worry about morality? How do we apply moral theory to society?). We shall examine
four important ethical theories (Aristotle’s virtue ethics, Kant’s deontologiy, Hume’s expressivism and
Mill’s utilitarianism) and we shall apply them to two practical questions: the rights of animals and
euthanasia. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage in debate and to test your own moral
theories.
This course previously ran under the title 'Right and Wrong: an introduction to Ethics'.
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The areas you will cover in this course are:
1. Rules, truths and theories: an introduction to ethical reasoning.
2. Freedom, knowledge and society: the preconditions of ethical reasoning.
3. Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character.
4. Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation.
5. Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law.
6. Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus.
7. Reading week.
8. Practical ethics: animal rights.
9. Practical ethics: euthanasia.

10. Making up your mind.
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Course aims
This course aims to:
• introduce students to philosophical ethics;
• help students understand that and why there is more to ethics than following rules;
• introduce students to the different philosophical theories of ethics, and the arguments for and
against them;
• enable students to come to and defend their own positions on various ethical issues
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Assessment methods
The course assessment will be a short exercise of about 500 words, plus a written essay/commentary
of approximately 1000 words.
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Level and demands

FHEQ level 4, 10 weeks, approx 10 hours per week, therefore a total of about 100 hours.
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Recommended reading
buy the following book:
Shafer-Landau, Russ: (Ed); Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell`s, Oxford, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-
4051-3320-3)
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Teaching methods
~ Guided reading of texts
~ Group discussions of particular issues
~ Questions to be answered in personal folders
~ Debating from positions given rather than from personal belief (to hone skills of debate)
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Teaching outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to explain:
• the difference between first and second order ethical questions;
• why moral dilemmas are ineliminable and difficult;

• how moral questions are applied in a social context;
• some arguments for and against absolute moral truth;
• the nature of the four moral theories studied, the arguments for and against them, and how
they can be compared and constrasted;
• their own positions on various issues, and why they hold them.
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Critical Reading (Online)

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Dates Mon 9 May to Fri 22 Jul 2011
Subject area(s) Literature
CATS points 10
Fees From £180.00
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Course code O10P381LTV
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Overview
This course is for anyone wanting to learn to read critically, and explore texts that are regarded as
‘critical’, or essential, reading.
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The course will introduce you to some key concepts in criticism and theory. It will help you to acquire
skills of close critical analysis that will enable you to study, write about, appreciate, and above all
enjoy literary texts. Illustrations and exercises will be taken from nineteenth- and twentieth-century
poetry and narrative fiction.
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Unit 1. Introduction: what is literature?
Unit 2. Close reading and criticism
Unit 3. Comparing literary texts
Unit 4. Narrative and structure
Unit 5. Description and devices
Unit 6.Analysing Poetry
Unit 7.Writing critically
Unit 8.Developing as a writer and reader
Unit 9. Other approaches to texts
Unit 10. Honing and keeping up your skills
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Course aims
• Enhance understanding and enjoyment of literary texts.
• Understand basic concepts of the critical idiom.
• Distinguish between opinions and appreciations, and analysis.
• Produce close critical analyses of prose and poetry.
• Have a working knowledge of the broad chronological, thematic, and stylistic categories of English
Literature.
• Make effective use of online resources in English Literary Studies.
• Begin to build a personal reading list.
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In this course assessment is through two pieces of close critical analysis (about 900-1200 words in
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Recommended reading
buy the following books:
• Royle, Nicholas, and Bennett, Andrew, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 3rd
edn. (London: Longman, 2004)
• Goring, P., Hawthorn, J., and Mitchell, D., Studying Literature: The Essential Companion (London:
Arnold, 2001)
• Lodge, D., The Art of Fiction (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992)
(Please note: new editions of these texts exist, but the course refers to these editions, which are
specified on the preliminary reading list you received. If you have later editions, the pagination may
be different).
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Teaching methods
Introductory section; reading required and recommended; handouts; online forum; online personal
reading diary; posted short responses to literary extracts and exercises; tutor responses to forum and
exercises; assessment and feedback.
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Teaching outcomes
By the end of the course you will know:
- basic concepts of the critical idiom.
- key arguments relating to literary value.
- key arguments relating to the methods and function of literary analysis.
- your own position as literary and critical theorists.
- differences between opinions and appreciations, and analysis.
By the end of the course you will have developed the ability to:
- discuss your reading with confidence and enjoyment.
- produce close critical analyses of prose and poetry.
- produce written work utilising academic conventions of format and referencing.
- make effective use of online resources in English Literary Studies.
- build and develop a personal reading list.
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Recommended, but not required:

1. Key features (such as point-of-view, dialogue, etc) in a fictional work.

1. The ability to recognize and name key features in literature.

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1. Rules, truths and theories: an introduction to ethical reasoning.

2. Freedom, knowledge and society: the preconditions of ethical reasoning.

3. Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character.