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BSc (Honours) Open degree

Open University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Some of the key questions in the world today require expertise from a range of subjects. Multidisciplinary study has always been at the heart of the Open University, and the BA/BSc (Honours) Open, or Open degree, allows you to bring together different areas of study in a completely flexible way to develop knowledge and skills. It's a degree with a difference. Free from the restriction of a subject-specific specialism, you can set the direction of your learning. Choose from over 250 modules across 16 subject areas to create a bespoke qualification that matches your interests and helps you stand out in the job market.

  • Create your multidisciplinary degree.

  • Choose modules from a wide range of subject areas.

  • Develop a unique skill set to stand out to employers.

  • Flexibility to adapt your study plans to match your evolving aspirations.

  • Count previous university studies towards your qualification.

General Eligibility

There are no formal entry requirements to study this qualification

Part Time Work Details

In a distance learning course, there are typically no strict regulations regarding part-time employment, providing students with the flexibility to pursue work opportunities while studying remotely. This autonomy allows individuals to manage their schedules and balance professional commitments with their educational pursuits.

What You'll Study

1 Routes Through The Degree

  • Discovering the arts and humanities

  • Art and life before 1800

  • Art and its Global Histories

  • Science: concepts and practice

  • Cell and molecular biology

  • The biology of survival

  • Biological science: from genes to species

  • Business and management

  • An introduction to business and management

  • Shaping business opportunities

  • Strategic management

  • Childhood and youth studies

  • Introduction to childhood studies and child psychology

  • Exploring childhood and youth

  • Contemporary research with children and young people

  • Introduction to computing and information technology 1

  • Introduction to computing and information technology 2

  • Object-oriented Java programming

  • Algorithms, data structures, and computability

  • Data management and analysis

  • Interaction design and the user experience

  • Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century

  • Design essentials

  • Innovation: designing for change

  • You and your money

  • Economics in context

  • Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives

  • Doing economics: people, markets, and policy

  • Engineering: origins, methods, context

  • Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production

  • Core engineering A

  • Energy and sustainability

  • Nanoscale engineering

  • Renewable energy

  • Environment: journeys through a changing world

  • Energy and sustainability

  • Environmental management: systems and sustainability

  • Renewable energy

  • Environmental management 2

  • Introduction to French studies (beginners)

  • French Studies 1 (intermediate)

  • French Studies 2: language and culture of the French-speaking world

  • French Studies 3: language and culture of the French-speaking world

  • Introducing health and social care

  • Critical Ideas in well-being and Public Health

  • Leading, managing, caring

  • Criminal law and the courts

  • Public law

  • International, environmental, and space law

  • Trusts law (W311) 30

  • Law, society, and culture

  • Discovering mathematics

  • Essential mathematics 1

  • Mathematical methods

  • Analysing data

  • Applications of probability

  • Deterministic and stochastic dynamics

  • Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing

  • Living Psychology: from the everyday to the Extraordinary

  • Advancing social psychology

  • Introduction to sport and fitness

  • Applying sport and exercise sciences to coaching

  • Contemporary sport and exercise issues

2 Stage-1 (120 Credits)

  • An introduction to business and management

  • Business Data analytics and decision-making

  • Career development and employability

  • Civil justice and tort law

  • Communication skills for business and management 30

  • Criminal law and the courts

  • Cultures

  • Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century

  • Discovering mathematics

  • Discovering the arts and humanities

  • Economics in context

  • Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production

  • Engineering: mathematics, modeling, applications

  • Engineering: origins, methods, context

  • English for academic purposes online

  • Environment: journeys through a changing world

  • Essential mathematics 1

  • Exploring languages and cultures

  • Exploring perspectives on young children's lives and learning

  • Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing

  • French Studies 1 (intermediate)

  • Fundamentals of Accounting

  • German Studies 1 (intermediate)

  • Global challenges: social science in action

  • Human biology: a body in balance

  • Introducing English Language Studies

  • Introducing health and social care

  • Introducing statistics

  • Introducing the social sciences

  • Introduction to Childhood Studies and Child Psychology

  • Introduction to computing and information technology 1

  • Introduction to computing and information technology 2

  • Introduction to criminology

  • Introduction to French studies (beginners)

  • Introduction to German studies (beginners)

  • Introduction to Spanish studies (beginners)

  • Introduction to sport and fitness

  • Learning and teaching in the primary years

  • Making your learning count

  • Questions in science

  • Revolutions

  • Science and health: an evidence-based approach

  • Spanish studies 1 (intermediate)

  • Wellbeing across the life course

  • Working with people in sport and fitness

  • You and your money

  • Young children's play and creativity

3 Stage-2 (120 Credits)

  • Algorithms, data structures, and computability

  • Analyzing data

  • Applying sport and exercise sciences to coaching

  • Art and visual cultures in the modern world

  • Astronomy

  • Brain, mind, and mental health

  • Business and employment law

  • Cell and molecular biology

  • Change, strategy,y and projects at work

  • Changing geographies of the United Kingdom

  • Chemistry in life: food, water and medicines

  • Cisco networking (CCNA) part 1

  • Classical Latin: the language of ancient Rome

  • Communication and information technologies

  • Contract law

  • Core engineering A

  • Core engineering B

  • Creative writing

  • Death, dying, and bereavement

  • Design Essentials

  • Design for Engineers

  • Developing leadership

  • Developing subject knowledge for the primary years (

  • Early modern Europe: society and culture c.1500-1780

  • Earth science

  • Economics in practice

  • Electronics: sensing, logic, and actuation

  • Energy and sustainability

  • English in the world

  • Environment and society

  • Environment: sharing a dynamic planet

  • Environmental management: systems and sustainability

  • Environmental science

  • Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives

  • Evidence law

  • Exploring childhood and youth

  • Exploring innovation and entrepreneurship

  • Exploring mental health and counseling

  • Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences

  • Exploring the classical world

  • Family law

  • Financial accounting in context

  • Financial analysis and decision-making

  • French Studies 2: language and culture of the French-speaking world

  • German studies 2: language and culture of the German-speaking world

  • Human biology

  • International, environmental, and space law

  • Investigating human health and disease

  • Investigative approaches in biology and chemistry

  • Listening to young children: critical reflections

  • Living Psychology: from the every day to the Extraordinary

  • Making a difference: working with children and young people

  • Managing IT: the why, the what and the how

  • Mathematical methods

  • Mathematical methods, models, and modeling

  • Mechanical engineering: heat and flow

  • Music, sound, and technology

  • Object-oriented Java programming

  • Physics: from classical to quantum

  • Planetary science and the search for life

  • Practical modern statistics

  • Psychology of childhood and youth

  • Public law

  • Pure mathematics

  • Remote experiments in physics and space

  • Shaping business opportunities

  • Social research: crime, justice, and society

  • Social work law

  • Spanish studies 2: language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world

  • Sport and exercise psychology in action

  • Telling stories: the novel and beyond

  • The biology of survival

  • The British Isles and the modern world, 1789–1914

  • Understanding criminology

  • Understanding customers

  • Understanding digital societies

  • Understanding music

  • Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world

  • Web technologies

4 Stage-3 (120 Credits)

  • Advanced creative writing

  • Advancing social psychology

  • Applications of probability

  • Applied statistical modelling

  • Approaches to mental health

  • Art and its Critical Histories

  • Art and its Global Histories

  • Astrophysics of stars and exoplanets

  • Athletic development: a psychological perspective

  • Biological science: from genes to species

  • Central questions in the study of music

  • Chemistry: further concepts and applications

  • Cisco networking (CCNA) part 2

  • Communications technology

  • Comparative and international studies in primary education

  • Complex analysis

  • Computational applied mathematics

  • Cosmology and the Distant Universe

  • Counselling and forensic psychology: investigating crime and therapy

  • Creating futures: sustainable enterprise and innovation

  • Crime, harm, and the state

  • Data management and analysis

  • Deterministic and stochastic dynamics

  • Doing economics: people, markets, and policy

  • Earth processes

  • Economics for a Changing World

  • Electromagnetism

  • Electronics: signal processing, control, and communications

  • English literature from Shakespeare to Austen

  • Environment: responding to change

  • Environmental management 2

  • Environmental policy in an international context

  • Equity, trusts, and land

  • Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity

  • European Union law

  • Evaluating contemporary science

  • Exploring legal boundaries

  • French Studies 3: language and culture of the French-speaking world

  • Further pure mathematics

  • Geology and sustainability

  • German studies 3: language and culture of the German-speaking world

  • Graphs, games, and designs

  • Greek and Roman myth: stories and histories

  • Infectious disease and public health

  • Innovation: designing for change

  • Interaction design and the user experience

  • International relations: continuity and change in global politics

  • Investigating health and social care

  • IT systems: planning for success

  • Key questions in philosophy

  • Land law

  • Language and creativity

  • Language, literature, and childhood

  • Law, society, and culture

  • Leadership in a changing world

  • Leading, managing, caring

  • Learning and doing algebra

  • Learning and doing geometry

  • Literature in transition: from 1800 to the present

  • Management accounting and international finance

  • Marketing in action

  • Mathematical methods and fluid mechanics

  • Mathematical statistics

  • Mathematical thinking in schools

  • Mechanical engineering: computer-aided engineering

  • Modern political ideas

  • Nanoscale engineering

  • Public health: health promotion and health security

  • Quantum physics: fundamentals and applications

  • Renewable energy

  • Researching everyday geographies

  • Science project course: environmental science practical project

  • Science project course: geosciences

  • Science project course: radiation and matter

  • Science project module: biology

  • Science project module: chemistry

  • Science project module: health sciences

  • Signals and perception: the science of the senses

  • Social theory: changing social worlds

  • Software engineering

  • Spanish studies 3: language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world

  • Strategic management

  • Structural integrity: predicting and assessing performance

  • Terrestrial ecosystems

  • The engineering project

  • The Making of Welsh History

  • The Roman Empire

  • Trusts law

  • Web, mobile, and cloud technologies

  • Why is religion controversial?

  • Young lives, parenting, and families

Language Requirement

  • IELTS00
  • TOEFL00
  • PTE00
  • Duolingo00

This subject has no language prerequisite.

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