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Develop the specific language skills you need for successful academic study in English.

This module introduces key concepts relating to languages, language learning and plurilingualism through developing intercultural skills and language awareness.

This module develops your English language and skills through authentic business case studies for communicating effectively in the world of business and management.

Designed to develop academic skills for further study, this introductory module offers insights into a wide range of subject areas, including art history, English literature, history, and modern languages.

A fast track version of our Arts and Languages Access module - an ideal way to improve your study skills, and prepare for a range of OU qualifications in just 18 weeks.

An introduction to the genre of travel writing where you’ll read the work of travel writers and learn to write a piece of your own.

Learn the skills central to three of the main forms of creative writing: poetry, fiction and scriptwriting.

The course will introduce you to different ways of looking at crime fiction texts as well as introducing you to European authors from different countries.

Build on your love of literature through intellectual challenges that will develop your own literary research and analytical skills.

This innovative masters degree allows you to create a personalised course of study across a range of academic disciplines.

You will be introduced to the study of literature ‘in the world’ across three broad themes: ‘the Popular’, ‘Revolution’ and ‘the Global’.

This innovative module allows you to take a topic of your choosing and focus on it in depth while developing your postgraduate study skills.