Arts courses by level
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information websites.
Undergraduate courses
We strongly recommend that students new to Higher
Education, Open University study or to a particular subject area start
with either a 'Preparing for study' course or other Level 1 course.
Preparing for study (10 points)
Making Sense of the Arts (Y160)
Level 1
The arts past and present (AA100) NEW October 2008
Short courses (10 points)
Perspectives
on Leonardo da Vinci (A178)
Shakespeare:
An Introduction (A177)
Start Listening to Music (A179)
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Writing Essays (A172)
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Writing Family History (A173)
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Writing Fiction (A174)
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Writing Plays (A176)
Start
Writing Poetry (A175)
15 point courses
Ethics in real life (A181) 15 points NEW
Heritage, whose heritage? (A180) 15 points NEW
Level 2
Ancient
and Medieval Cities: A Technological History (AT272 - final presentation October 2008)
Approaching
Literature (A210)
Art
and its Histories (A216)
The Art History Residential School (AXR272)
Creative
Writing (A215)
Doing
Philosophy (AXR271)
Exploring History: Medieval to Modern 1400-1900 (A200)
Exploring
the Classical World (A219)
From
Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 (A207)
Introducing
Religions (A217)
Islam in the West: The Politics of Co-existence (AD252) Medicine
and Society in Europe 1500-1930 (A218)
Philosophy
and the Human Situation (A211)
Reading
Classical Greek (A296)
Reading
Classical Latin (A297)
The
Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800 (AS208)
The
Technology of Music (TA212)
Understanding
Media (DA204)
Understanding
Music: Elements, Techniques and Styles (A214)
World Archaeology (A251)
Level 3
Level 3 courses build on study skills and subject knowledge
acquired from studies at Levels 1 and 2.
20th
Century Literature: Texts and Debates (A300)
20th
Century Literature: Texts and Debates (AZX300) - online version
Advanced Creative Writing (A363) - NEW October 2008
Art
of the Twentieth Century (AA318)
Cities
and Technology: from Babylon to Singapore (AT308)
Continuing
Classical Greek (A396)
Continuing Classical Latin (A397)
Culture,
Identity and Power in the Roman Empire (AA309)
Europe: Culture and Identities in a Contested Continent (AA300)
Europe:
Culture and Identities in a Contested Continent (AAZX300) - online
version
Film
and Television History (AA310)
From
Composition to Performance: Musicians at Work (AA302)
Post-Colonial
Literatures in English: Readings and Interpretations (A430 final presentation February 2008)
Reading
Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill (AA311)
Religion
Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (AD317)
Religion
in History: Conflict, Conversion (AA307)
Renaissance Art Reconsidered (AA315)
Residential
School. Total War and Social Change: Europe 1914 - 1955 (AXR312)
Shakespeare:
text and performance (AA306)
The
Nineteenth-Century Novel (AA316)
The
Professions in Early Modern England, c.1450-1800 (A433)
The
Renaissance in Europe: a Cultural Enquiry (AA305)
Thought
and Experience: Themes in the Philosophy of Mind (AA308)
Total
War and Social Change: Europe 1914 - 1955 (AA312)
Postgraduate courses
Follow this link for details of our taught
postgraduate courses.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course
Art and life in ancient Egypt: the Nebamun wall paintings (GA060) NEW
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