An introduction to material culture

# Introduction

Why study things? Or put another way, what can we learn from objects that we can’t find out from the reading of texts? There’s no simple answer to these questions but, as we shall discover in the course of this course, there’s no getting around the ubiquity of things.

This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities.

OpenLearn - An introduction to material culture
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