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In this programme members of the D101 Course Team describe the rationale behind the course's interdisciplinary orientation and discuss the reasons for their participation in its development. A BBC... producer explains the role of the broadcast component of the course and shows some excerpts from future programmes in the series.
In this programme members of the D101 Course Team describe the rationale behind the course's interdisciplinary orientation and discuss the reasons for their participation in its development. A BBC... producer explains the role of the broadcast component of the course and shows some excerpts from future programmes in the series.
| Module code and title: | D101, Making sense of society |
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| Item code: | D101; 00 |
| First transmission date: | 06-02-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Michael Philps |
| Contributors: | Ruth H. Finnegan; Andrew Learmonth; David Potter; Philip Sarre; Richard Stevens |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Course introduction; Society; Themes |
| Footage description: | Potter, Finnegan, Stevens, Learmonth, Sarre and Hamilton outline briefly what they hope students will get out of D101. Philips mentions the course team's approach relating the five disciplines to seven dimensions of society. Shots from early team meeting. Learmonth and Potter look at the difficulties for both student and academic of an interdisciplinary approach to the Social Sciences. Finnegan and Connors discuss some of the study skills which they hope students will acquire. Shots of students reading, working, completing CMAs etc. Turner, the BBC producer, looks at the broadcast components as an intergral part of the course. Shots from later programmes, including lengthy clips of San Francisco. Stevens, Finnegan, Potter, Hamilton and Learmonth outline what they got from D101 and what basis it will form for students for further studies. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71750 |
| Production number: | 00525_2152 |
| Videofinder number: | 1655 |
| Available to public: | no |
