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Arts and Humanities courses

This is a list of all the modules available for study as standalone courses in Arts and Humanities. Please note that this is an alphabetical list. You should not study these courses in this order.

OU modules are planned on the assumption that you will study progressively from one study level to the next, starting at Level 1. Modules at Level 2 and Level 3 assume that you are suitably prepared for study at this level. If you want to study a module as a standalone course, you don't need to start at Level 1 but you do need to have adequately prepared yourself for OU study in some other way. Check with advisory staff at our Student Registration & Enquiry Service to make sure that you are sufficiently prepared.

Course title (code) Level Credits Next Start
20th century literature: texts and debates (A300) 3 60 Oct 2013
Advanced creative writing (A363) 3 60 Oct 2013
Art of the twentieth century (AA318) 3 60 Oct 2013
Children's literature (EA300) 3 60 Sep 2013
Continuing classical Latin (A397) 3 30 Oct 2013
Creative writing (A215) 2 60 Oct 2013
Empire: 1492-1975 (A326) 3 60 Oct 2013
English grammar in context (E303) 3 60 Feb 2014
Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity (A327) NEW 3 60 Oct 2013
Exploring art and visual culture (A226) 2 60 Oct 2013
Exploring history: medieval to modern 1400-1900 (A200) 2 60 Oct 2013
Exploring philosophy (A222) 2 60 Oct 2013
Exploring the classical world (A219) 2 60 Oct 2013
From composition to performance: musicians at work (AA302) 3 60 Sep 2013
From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 (A207) 2 60 Oct 2013
Inside music (A224) 2 60 Oct 2013
Introducing religions (A217) 2 60 Oct 2013
Making sense of the arts (Y180) 1 15 Jun 2013
Making sense of things: an introduction to material culture (A151) 1 30 Apr 2014
Medicine and society in Europe 1500-1930 (A218) 2 60 Oct 2013
Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds (A330) 3 60 Oct 2013
Reading and studying literature (A230) 2 60 Oct 2013
Reading classical Greek: language and literature (A275) 2 60 Oct 2013
Reading classical Latin (A297) 2 30 Oct 2013
Renaissance art reconsidered (AA315) 3 60 Oct 2013
Shakespeare: text and performance (AA306) 3 60 Oct 2013
Small country, big history: themes in the history of Wales (A182) 1 15
Start listening to music (A179) 1 10 Oct 2013
The art history residential school (AXR272) 2 15 May 2014
The art of English (E301) 3 60 Sep 2013
The arts past and present (AA100) 1 60 Oct 2013
The nineteenth-century novel (AA316) 3 60 Oct 2013
The technology of music (TA212) 2 60 Oct 2013
Thought and experience: themes in the philosophy of mind (AA308) 3 60 Sep 2013
Total war and social change: Europe 1914-1955 (AA312) 3 60
Understanding global heritage (AD281) 2 60 Oct 2013
Voices and texts (A150) 1 30 Oct 2013
Why is religion controversial? (A332) NEW 3 60 Oct 2013
World archaeology (A251) 2 30 Nov 2013
Worlds of English (U214) 2 60 Oct 2013

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