3.1 Introduction
Ever wondered why rats, mice and squirrels seem to reproduce at such an alarming rate? Rodents are among the most successful of all the mammal groups. In this unit you will learn more about some of the evolutionary features that make these creatures so plentiful. This is the third unit in the ‘Studying mammals’ series.
Introduction to Free/Open-Source Software
Structure: Three credits. Three lecture hours per week (45 total contact hours).
Prerequisites: none
Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS) has grown from small beginnings to a ma jor trend in the IT industry. Big companies like IBM have reoriented their business and are now deriving the majority of their revenues from services related to FOSS.
Countless small and medium enterprises all over the world are also successful in this area.
Film in history/history in film
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2009
This module explores the inter-relations and interactions of film and history in 20th century Europe and the United States (with a few classic films from elsewhere). It considers how films have appropriated past events as their core subject matter or setting, for purposes of nostalgic entertainment or didactic drama, for social commentary, philosophical enquiry or political protes
Harvesting history, Laxton : the medieval village that survived the modern age
A video covering the medieval farming and life styles preserved in Laxton, a small village in Nottinghamshire which has survived the modern age. Includes images and artefacts from the exhibition presented by the University of Nottingham Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections.
Suitable for community education, secondary education, undergraduate year one and further education
Author and presenter: Kathryn Summerwill.
Kathryn Summerwill qualified as a professional archivist from the U
Introduction to compact operators
The aim of this session is to cover the basic theory of compact linear operators on Banach spaces. This includes definitions and statements of the background and main results, with illustrative examples and some proofs.
Target audience: This material is accessible to anyone who has a basic knowledge of metric space topology, and who knows what a bounded linear operator on a Banach space is. It is most likely to be suitable for postgraduate students or final year undergraduates.
Introduction to European politics
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Spring Semester 2009
This module seeks to provide students with an understanding of the rationale and key stages of European integration, as well as of the institutions of the European Union and its functioning. Topics covered will include an overview of the History of European integration, key approaches to integration, the main institutions (Council, Commission, Court of Justice, European Parliament
Introduction to macroeconomics
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Spring Semester 2010.
This module provides an introduction to modern macroeconomic analysis. Macroeconomics is concerned with some of the most pressing and fundamental questions economists can ask, such as: What determines economic growth? Why do economies exhibit expansions ('booms') and contractions ('busts') in output? What drives employment and wages, saving and investment? What causes inflation
Introduction to microeconomics
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught Semester 1 2009/2010.
There are no pre-requisites to taking this module and in particular there is no assumption of any prior knowledge of economics. For those who have taken A-level economics or any other version of economics some of the module content will appear familiar to you. However, the methods of analysis and the approach to teaching will quite probably be very different to anything experienced
Nineteenth and early twentieth century American entertainment culture
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn/Spring Semesters 2009/2010
This resource presents material from four different courses taught across the School of American and Canadian Studies and Film and Television Studies. It addresses various aspects of nineteenth and early twentieth century American entertainment culture.
You can view module outlines for 4 modules taught within the school:
* American Drama (undergraduate year 3 le
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : central tendency
Statistical data have a tendency to cluster around some central point.
How do we determine this point?
Is there just one way of doing it or more than one?
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : graphical display
Different ways of displaying data: boxplots, histograms and distributions.
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : introduction
Things you need to know before looking at the statistics courses here.
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : normal distribution
One of the most common statistical distributions is the normal distribution. What does it tell us and how do we use it?
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : standard deviation
A standard way of measuring statistical variability: standard deviation and the associated concepts of variance and degrees of freedom.
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : summation sign
Understanding the summation sign: what does it do … why does it exist?
Statistics - an intuitive introduction : variability
Statistical data vary: range and inter-quartile range measure this. Are they good measures?
Making history
In this podcast you'll hear from the man who co-discovered Ibuprofen, University of Nottingham alumnus Dr Stewart Adams.
Geography, U.S. History & Government Parts I and II - after 12/11/2007
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IEA4 and IEC4 - Econ and World History after 12/07/2007
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Monarchs, People, and History
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