OU Study Materials

The Open University has been delivering modules/courses to students since 1971. The Study Materials collection is a comprehensive archive, including printed, audio/visual, multimedia and web materials. The collection also includes associated materials, such as transcripts of audio/visual content, set books, prospectuses and a selection of home experiment kits. The OU Digitral Archive collection of Study Materials contains a sample of the full archive. The collection will grow as further materials are added

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Title Module Code Resource Type Start Date
An arts foundation courseA101Module1977
Renaissance and ReformationA201Module1972
Seventeenth century England: a changing culture 1618-1689A203Module1981
The early Roman empire and the rise of ChristianityA291Module1974
Greece 478-336BCA292Module1978
Problems of philosophyA303Module1973
The development of instruments and their musicA304Module1974
History of architecture and design 1890-1939A305Module1975
Twentieth century poetryA306Module1976
DramaA307Module1977
The rise of modernism in music 1890-1935A308Module1979
Conflict and stability in the development of modern Europe c.1789-1970A309Module1980
Philosophical problemsA313Module1981
The revolutions of 1848A321Module1976
English urban history 1500-1780A322Module1977
Modern art from 1848 to the present: styles and social implicationsA351Module1976
Art in Italy 1480-1580A352Module1979
Science and belief: from Darwin to EinsteinA381Module1981
Great Britain 1750-1950: sources and historiographyA401Module1974
Thought and reality: central themes in Wittgenstein's philosophyA402Module1976