Explore.
Watch, listen, debate & discover with our experts

RSS Icon

OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War One

OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War One Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 16 May 2013
By The Timewatch team
Michael Palin joins the Timewatch team to discover why troops were still dying after the peace had been signed.
Read more : OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Last Day of World War One

Design in a nutshell

Featuring: VideoActivity
Design in a nutshell Updated content Creative commons imageCredit: The Open University
Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 08 May 2013
By Clive Hilton
Get the lowdown on 6 key design movements and share your design alter-ego
Watch now: Design in a nutshell

Star Trek and the Greeks

Star Trek and the Greeks New content Creative commons imageCredit: Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons
Introductory Level Updated 08 May 2013
By Tony Keen
Like many science fiction series, Star Trek in all its incarnations has drawn upon human history
Read more : Star Trek and the Greeks

Try.
Free extracts from OU course materials

RSS Icon

History as commemoration

Free Course
History as commemoration Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Introductory Level Duration 4 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution to our sense of community. Written texts, memorials, letters and photographs can all...
Try History as commemoration now

Continuing classical Latin

Free CourseFeaturing: Audio
Continuing classical Latin Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Intermediate Level Duration 4 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit gives you the opportunity to hear a discussion of the development of the Latin language.
Try Continuing classical Latin now

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems

Free CourseFeaturing: Audio
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Intermediate Level Duration 16 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit looks at the short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) for a single voice with piano, a...
Try Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems now

Study.
Change your life with The Open University

RSS Icon

Renaissance art reconsidered

Course
Renaissance art reconsidered Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Advanced Level Duration 600 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
By The Open University
Renaissance art wasn’t just confined to Italy, as traditional courses would have it… discover new social, geographical and subject areas where its influence was felt.The...
Visit prospectus for Renaissance art reconsidered

The art history residential school

Course
The art history residential school Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: Dreamstime
Intermediate Level Duration 150 hours Updated 12 May 2013 Register by 09 May 2014
By The Open University
This art history residential school equips you to interpret artworks in an informed and critical manner, with guided visits to major London museums and galleries.The...
Visit prospectus for The art history residential school

Art of the twentieth century

Course
Art of the twentieth century Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Advanced Level Duration 600 hours Updated 21 Apr 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
By The Open University
Explore the key media, artists, movements which have revolutionised the concept and practice of art in modern times – from painting and sculpture to performance...
Visit prospectus for Art of the twentieth century