The Open University - Open To All (Social Sciences At The Open University)

Member Name: dippykitty

Product:	Social Sciences At The Open University
Date:	05/02/09 (72 review reads)
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Advantages: You can fit studying around your work and home life

Disadvantages: Courses can be challenging and demanding for those who don't have much free time

I am currently coming towards the end of my Social Sciences degree at The Open University. The last six years have been a hard slog as like most Open University students, I have been fitting studying around work commitments. For my degree, I have studied the obligatory introductory course DD100: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, DA204 Understanding Media Studies, D218 Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity, DD201 Sociology and Society, AA310 Film and Television History, and am currently studying DD308 Making Social Worlds.

The courses have all been very thorough and detailed with lots of interesting content in the textbooks and audiovisual material provided with the course. As you move through the course levels from level 2 to level 3, the courses become noticeably more challenging. At level 2, you are expected to know quite a wide range of topics in reasonable depth, but at level 3, you are expected to know topics in much more depth, which can be very challenging.

Summary: A great way to earn a Social Sciences degree without having to attend university as a mature student