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Studying the Arts

Arts courses by level

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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)
Start Writing Essays (A172)
Start Writing Family History (A173)
Start Writing Fiction (A174)
Start 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

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 2 short course (10 points)

Ancient and Medieval Cities: A Technological History (AT272 final presentation October 2008)

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

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Art and life in ancient Egypt: the Nebamun wall paintings (GA060) NEW