OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - Study at the Open University

By: The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

If this series has sparked your desire for knowledge, take your interest to the next level with a course from the Open University.

19 Apr

2007

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Have the topics in this series sparked your imagination? Perhaps you would like to learn more? A course from the Open University could be just the thing for you! Check out our courses page for a list of what is on offer, or visit our science faculty website.

General Science
S103 - Discovering Science
SXR103 - Practising Science

Here are some courses with relevance to the programmes that may be of interest:

Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity
Y161 - Introducing Environment (Available from 2007)
T172 - Working with Our Environment: Technology for a Sustainable Future

There is Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe
S282 - Astronomy
S283 - Planetary Science and the Search for Life

The Mapping of the Genome Will Transform Medicine
SXR376 - Molecular Basis of Human Disease

The Natural Limit of Our Life is Threescore Years and Ten
SK277 - Human Biology

CJD is Caused By BSE
U205 - Health and Disease
S320 - Infectious Disease

Human Evolution Has Stopped
SK277 - Human Biology
S366 - Evolution

Truth Will Out in more depth:

OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - CJD is caused by BSE Used with permission

Truth Will Out explores the origins of CJD with a panel of specialists in this series of articles, originally published in July 2001 Read more : OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - CJD is caused by BSE

OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - Global warming is caused by human activity Production team

Truth Will Out spoke to a number of experts in the field of climate change to get their view of global climate change. These articles... Read more : OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - Global warming is caused by human activity

Has human evolution stopped? The Open University

To explore the contention that humankind has developed as far as it will go, Truth Will Out assembled a team of experts with first hand... Read more : Has human evolution stopped?

OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - There is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe Production team

In this series of articles originally published in July 2001 to coincide with Truth Will Out, our panel of experts discuss their views on the... Read more : OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - There is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe

Three score and ten: How long will I live? Robert Scarth under CC-BY-SA licence

The Bible fixes our lifespan at 70 years. Science thinks we can do a lot better than that. Read more : Three score and ten: How long will I live?

OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - Will genome mapping change medicine? Production team

The TV series Truth Will Out asked a panel of experts if mapping the human genome will bring forward a new era of medicine. These... Read more : OU on the BBC: Truth Will Out - Will genome mapping change medicine?