Open University (OU) Taster Portal

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Introduction

To help you in deciding which course to take, you may like to see some of the materials first. The links below provide a variety of samples such as:

• diagnostic tests
• extracts of course materials
• study calendars
• tutor marked assignment questions.

At present you can view sample materials for the following courses. We aim to provide course tasters for all our courses in the near future.

• Ethics in Real Life (A181)
• Exploring the Classical World (A219)
• Thought and Experience: themes in the philosophy of mind (AA308)
• Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting (B190)
• You and Your Money: Personal Finance in Context (DB123)
• Introducing the Social Sciences (DD101)
• Governing Europe (DD200)
• Governing Europe (DDZX200)- online version
• Sociology and Society (DD201)
• Economics and Economic Change (DD202)
• Power, dissent, equality: understanding contemporary politics (DD203)
• Understanding Media (DA204)
• Living in a Globalised World (DD205)
• Welfare, Crime and Society (DD208)
• Crime, Order and Social Control (D315)
• Understanding Cities (DD304)
• Personal Lives and Social Policy (DD305)
• Living political ideas (DD306)
• Making Social Worlds (DD308)
• A World of Whose Making? (DU301)
• Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context (DU311)
• Introduction to sport, fitness and management (E112)
• Introduction to working with young people in practice (E118)
• Leading work with young people in practice (E218)
• Introduction to working with young people (E131)
• Introduction to working with your people: supported APEL route (EZL131)
• Leading work with young people (E132)
• Leading work with young people:supported APEL route (EZL132)
• Ouverture: A Fresh Start in French (L120)
• Auftakt: Get Ahead in German (L130)
• En Rumbo: Intermediate Spanish (L140)
• Bon Départ: Beginners' French (L192)
• Rundblick (L193)
• Rundblick (LZX193)- online version
• Portales: Beginners' Spanish (L194)
• Croeso: beginners' Welsh (L196)
• Motive: Moving on in German (L203)
• Viento en popa: Moving on in Spanish (L204)
• Viento en popa: Moving on in Spanish (LZX204)- online version
• Nouvel Envol (L211)
• Nouvelles Mises au Point (L310)
• Variationen: German Language and Society (L313)
• Variationen: German Language and Society (LZX313)- online version
• A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish (L314)
• Professional communication skills for business studies (LB160)
• Using Mathematics (MST121)
• Open Mathematics (MU120)
• The Molecular World (S205)
• The Physical World (S207)
• Astronomy (S282)
• Managing Complexity: A Systems Approach (T306)
• Understanding Law (W200)
• Law: The Individual and the State (W201)

• Postgraduate Foundation Module in Philosophy (A850)
• Investigating the Psychological World (D821)
• Investigating the social world (D822)
• Psychometrics: Selection and Assessment (D842)
• Discourse analysis (D843)
• Research Methods Dissertation in Social Sciences (D845)
• Innovations in eLearning (H807)
• The eLearning Professional (H808)