Further study

[tinyjo]

I've decided that I do want to go ahead with doing some OU courses. I was surprised by how fired up just looking at the range of things available got me - it really sparked my enthusiasm and I found dozens of courses I'm interested in taking.

I've managed to whittle it down to just 4, all 10 point courses* at the introductory level, but I'm dithering on which of them to go for so, in traditional LJ style, I figured I'd post a poll :) They all sound like they'd be really interesting to me although if I am leaning towards one it would be Chance, Risk & Health, I think. What do you think?

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* which seems to indicate a shorter course - all the higher level courses (as well as some of the other introductory ones) are 30 or 60 point courses. The idea being to do something that will give me a taster of the whole setup and help me get an idea of how much work is involved.

Comments

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the stats course essentially repeat a great deal of what you know or can learn on your own, being a Proper Mathmo? I almost chose "Understanding Society" because I know you have a great interest in this general area and maybe it would be a very useful thing to get your teeth into, but it could be a huge great clanger, OTOH, in the classic Social Science way. But Shakespeare, now, that might be VERY different for you, and great fun. (You have cats, and Alex, so I didn't imagine for a moment you'd need "Studying Mammals" as an introduction to the OU!)

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Actually, it would be a quite different perspective on stats. In the maths courses I did it was all about proving that various distributions work in particular ways whereas this would be more about how those distributions can be used in the real world to give us information, which I think would be much more interesting!

I'm now leaning more towards Understanding Society, I think. The Shakespeare would be covering R&J, which I've studied before so it seems a bit of a shame to cover old ground. I still think Studying Mammals would be fun, and it'd be linked to the David Attenborough Life of Mammals series which I already found really interesting. Still, there's plenty of time for all of them eventually :)