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No Home for a Lady? Five Women Travelling in the '90s
This new course will follow the different paths of five women travellers writing of their adventures and romance. We will visit Rajasthan, Damascus, Jordon, Greece and Zimbabwe and on our travels will visit the lives and culture of the writers and those that they meet and sometimes love. Course Tutor Susannah Fullerton Supplied Course Material...
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Who'll Come A-Waltzing? - Australian Poetry In Focus
The Australian poetic voice is vibrant, entertaining, moving and memorable. There is so much about Australia, the land and its people, embedded in its poetry. Each unit of this course will explore poetic forms as they address what it means to be Australian and how our great land informs our identity. Meet our great poets and our obscure poets and...
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Australia's Catastrophic Bushfires: Media Reporting and the ABC
This lecture, held in conjunction with the Friends of the ABC, will look at the catastrophic bushfires; media reporting by the different outlets; the role and influence of social media; the ABC’s emergency broadcasting and the imperative for proper funding for Australia’s national broadcaster....
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This lecture, held in conjunction with the Friends of the ABC, will look at the catastrophic bushfires; media reporting by the different outlets; the role and influence of social media; the ABC’s
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Feb
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Acrylic Painting: An Introduction
Acrylic painting has some of the features of both oil painting and watercolours. It is therefore an ideal medium for those people wishing to explore traditional painting or more modern mixed media techniques. The course covers a number of genres including still life, landscape and the human figure. Cost of life model included in course fee. COURSE...
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Pen and Wash Sketching: What to Add or Take Out
Enhance or simplify your sketch by using artistic license to take out unwanted elements or add additional features, to balance the composition or to enhance the sketch. You can create a focal point to draw the eye into the sketch, learn about rule of thirds for landscape sketching, how to frame elements in your sketch by adding surrounding trees....
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Pride, Faith And Blood: The American Civil War And Its Aftermath
Every Federation has struggles between States' rights and national policies. In the United States these led to a civil war which cost more lives than all other wars in which Americans have been involved put together. The war left scars that are still raw, especially in the South, where the Confederate flag flies defiantly over some government...
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The Victorian Age And Its Legacy
We’ve all heard the story of Victorian-age prudery which is said to have led to piano legs being covered with frilly lace so that lustful minds could not be excited by bare ankles. Yet, outside the home, in Victorian England, prostitution flourished as never before. This is one of the many paradoxes of the Victorian age, which also saw growing...
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The Mycenaeans: Bronze Age Ancestors of the Ancient Greeks
The Mycenaeans – the heroes of Greek mythology – created a rich and complex civilisation. Archaeology has revealed many of their monuments, including the palaces which were the centres of artistic, economic and political life. Gain a broad outline of Mycenaean culture, from the Mycenaeans' arrival in Greece to the final collapse of their...
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Medieval Learning: Throwing a Light on the Dark Ages
The Middle Ages have often been dismissed as a period of ignorance stuck between two epochs of intellectual achievement – the world of Classical Antiquity and the flowering of the Renaissance. However if we look closer we will discover a rich tradition of innovation and learning. From Charlemagne’s reign in the 8th century to the 14th century, the...
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Portraits of Italy: Cicero, Alberti, Raphael, Titian, Vivaldi and Domenic Scarletti
This course explores the glories of creativity in Italy from Ancient Rome through to the Renaissance, using a mixture of written commentary, original texts, and audio and visual material. Cicero’s famous speeches examine the interconnection between writing and public speaking in Ancient Rome; the Alberti unit looks at his architecture and his...
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