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

[iruineverything.livejournal.com]

thinking about what you said about usefulness for teaching, maybe the shakespeare one might be a good one -- being so different from your degree and training?

however i think the most interesting of those looks like "understanding society", and would def. be choosing this one if i were choosing! you seem really interested in society anyway, so i'm sure you'd get a lot out of it, and it could certainly be applied to whatever you put your hand to after your current career path. to be honest, this is probably the most important thing i think kids can learn about at school -- so there's certainly be scope there for teaching too, as part of PHSE if nothing else.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does sound really interesting and having talked it over with Mum, I think I'm likely to go for that (apart from anything else, it'll give me an idea of whether I'm likely to enjoy some of the longer really interesting looking courses in that area).

I did to an Eng Lit A-level so I'm actually more up on that sort of thing than I am on any sciences, which I dropped after GCSEs. I do enjoy studying Shakespeare but I've done R&J before so I'm not sure about repeating that one.