Bad Faery

Friday, January 25, 2008

Here I go again

The above picture represents a substantial chunk of my life for the next nine months. These are the course materials for my next OU course, U211 Exploring The English Language, which officially starts a week from tomorrow.

According to the course overview…

“U211 is a 60-pont, second level undergraduate course requiring approximately 600 hours of study, as follows:
course-directed study - 440 hours
self-directed study - 120 hours
studentship - 40 hours

Phew! When you see it broken down like that it seems like A LOT! 

Comments:

Break it down into weeks and months and it won’t seem as bad.
Way to go!
Enjoy!

Posted by Lynn on 01/26 at 02:58 AM

GULP!!  it sure does… but once you get started it will be fine, honest!! :-)

Posted by Elizabeth on 01/30 at 10:20 PM

Dear Bad Faery, what a challenge! I can understand why you have undertaken such an adventure, it is so great to learn things. More each day. I guess you must have a lot of energy, do this and having a job at the same time! Bon Courage, as they say here.
I like you artwork too, have to catch up with everything,
have a good Sunday
Andrea

Posted by Andrea on 02/02 at 11:46 PM

Hi Andrea

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog. You are obviously very busy as evidenced by all the lovely stuff you’ve been posting on your blog. I’ve been enjoying your posts very must.

Posted by Bad Faery on 02/03 at 04:26 PM

Hi I need some help I will enroll in U211. Before to start I would like some info. If you can send me your experiences in the course and the final exam. and the difficulty with the assigment.
I am not English native and I worry…
I also would like to know if I can get the material of the course in any place second hand.
Thank you,
Marc
eolos2002@gmail.com

Posted by Marc on 05/08 at 09:18 PM

Hi Marc

I only started the course in February so I have quite a way to go before I get as far at the exam so I can’t tell you anything about that just yet:)

Course materials: You can buy the four course books on Amazon:

Changing English

Using English

Redesigning English

Learning English

or you could always try Ebay.

This is a level 2 course, i.e. equivalent to year 2 of a degree course though I have spoken to other students who have already done level 3 courses and think that U211 is as hard if not harder due to the sheer volume of material to digest.

Please, please don’t take offense but going by the standard of English in your comment I don’t think that this course would be for you. It’s not an English language learning course and I think you would struggle with the level of analysis that is required since you don’t as yet have a good enough knowledge of English grammar. U211 explores the history and development of English, its role as a world language and the many contexts in which it is used today and as such assumes students will already have a good standard of English.

Non-native English speakers are supposed to contact the University before enrolling so that should be your first port of call.

You should check out this page for continental Europe students:
http://www3.open.ac.uk/studyatou/apply/study-outside-uk.shtml

The contact details for the OU in the North (which is where European students need to contact) can be found here:
http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/details.aspx?contactid=9

Good luck with your future studies!

Posted by Bad Faery on 05/08 at 10:22 PM

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