Foreign Perspectives

The big problem with the Open University is that they have just too many courses available and therefore once you start one particular course you find yourself looking at the prospectus when it pops through your letterbox mid-way through that course and choosing another, and another, and another…..

For instance, I am (hopefully) on the home run to a degree in modern languages with “only” one course to go. However, I know that they’ll be sending me a prospectus shortly after Easter next year and in preparation for that I’ve had a look through the courses from the prospectus that arrived earlier this year.

That is, of course, fatal as I’ve already pretty much decided to go for their chemistry degree. I even bought the DVD of that on ebay last year (recommended: search for “S103” or “S104”; the DVD contains the complete course, less the mini science laboratory that they send you and which weights way too much to post).

However, I’d also quite like to have a go at the German courses and possibly some from the history faculty.

Although I’ve stuck to one course per year up to now I’m toying with the idea of combining some of the level 2 30 point science couses with perhaps the 30 point level 1 German courses which sounds like a doable amount of work.