Upcoming studies at the open university

Agricultural Science

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Biodiversity.now 2 cr, MOOC  
• New! Research design and analysis 5 cr

Atmospheric Science

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Climate.now 2 cr, MOOC
• Introduction to Sustainability 3 cr, MOOC 
• Political Economy of Sustainability 2 cr, MOOC
• Sustainability and the Arts 1 cr, MOOC
• Climate.now 5 cr
• Leadership for Sustainable Change 2cr/5 cr
• Sustainable.now 5 cr
• SystemsChange.now 5 cr
• Solution.now 5 cr
• ClimateComms.now 2 cr
• Living with Changing Climate 5 cr
• Uutta! Forests and Climate Change 2 cr

Environmental and Food Economy

Individual courses on a bachelor's degree level

• Cooperatives and Sustainable Development 5 cr

Environmental Change and Global Sustainability

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Introduction to Sustainability Science 5 cr
• Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Sustainability Science 5 cr

Courses on a bachelor's degree level

Cultural Studies  

• Sustainable Stewardship of Nature and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 5 cr
• Introduction to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences 5 cr  
• New! Introduction to Japanese culture and society 5 cr
• New! Food Culture in Japan 5 cr
• New! Introduction to Korean History and Culture 5 cr
• New! Bollywood and Indian Film: Methods, Analysis and Contexts 5 cr
• New! 20th Century Korea: Politics, People and Place 5 cr 
• New! Responses to Cultural Assimilation in the US 5 cr
• New! US Political system and The 2024 Presidential elections 5 cr
• New! History and Cultures of Hawaií: Archipelagic Aprraoch to North america 5 cr 
• New! Modern textile histories – textile craft, art, and design shaping modern society 5 cr 

History

• New! Introduction to Game Studies and Analysis 5 cr
• New! Cultural history of pain 5 cr
• New! Women, Power and Political Culture: Medieval to Modern 5 cr
   

Courses on a master's degree level

Area and Cultural Studies

• New! Methods and Theories in Area and Cultural Studies
• New! Transcultural Flows and Asian Diasporas
• New! Who's got the Power? Communicating and Negotiating Authority and Identity in Indian Festival Cultures 
• New! Reading North Korea 
• New! Latin American Studies
• New! Lifestyle Migration, Mobilities and Identities
• New! Monuments, Colonialism, and Contested Public Spaces
• New! Critical Thinking in Latin America
• New! Arts and Politics in Latin America 

Cultural Heritage  

• Archaeology 

  • New! Isotope Geochemistry for Archaeologists 5 cr 
  • New! Water Worlds 5 cr 
  • New! The Prehistory of Europe 5 cr 
  • New! Arch Sciences Module 5 cr   
  • Issues in Maritime Archaeology – Past and Present: PART 1 5 cr   

• Museology

  • Museums and Museology: History, Theory and Sources 5 cr
  • Museums, Community, and Learning 5 cr
  • Local Museums as Spaces of Memory and History: an introduction to interdisciplinary methods 5 cr 
     

Digital Humanities

• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 5 cr
• Cognition & Brain Function 5 cr
• New! Computational Literacy  5 cr 
• New! Programming for Digital Humanities 5 cr
• New! Statistics for Digital Humanities 5 cr
• New! Machine Translation 5 cr 
• New! Current Topics in Language Technology 5 cr 
• New! Building Natural Language Processing Applications 5 cr 
   

Gender Studies

• New! Men, Masculinities and Society 5 cr 
   

Literary Studies

• New! What is Literary Interpretation? 5 cr 

Philosophy

• Philosophy of Social Sciences 5 cr
• Philosophical and Methodological Fundations of Sustainability Science 5 cr
• Science, Policy, and Democracy 5 cr
• Philosophy of Quantum Theory 5 cr
• Existential Phenomenology and Society: de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre 5 cr
• Contemporary Critical Theory 5 cr
• Values in Science: Mainstream and Feminist Approaches 5 cr
• Philosophy of Economics 5 cr
   

Studies of Finnish and Finno-Ugric languages and cultures

• Indigenous Peoples, Epistemic and Linguistic Diversity 5 cr

Vetenary Medicine

Individual courses on a bachelor's degree level

• New! Me and my Dog 3 cr, MOOC 
• New! Me and my Cat 3 cr, MOOC 

Pharmacy

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Recombinant DNA-Technology in Therapeutic Protein Engineering 4 cr
• Drug Metabolism 5 cr

Neuro Science

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Molecular Nutrition 5 cr 
• Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience 5 cr

Bachelor's Programme in Science 
 

Mathematics

• Linear Algebra and Complex Numbers 5 cr
• Calculus IA: Limits and Differentiation 5 cr
• Calculus IB: Integration 5 cr
• Advanced calculus5 cr
• Probability Calculus I 5 cr
• Linear Algebra and Matrices II 5 cr
• Differential Equations 5 cr

Physics

• Interactions and Bodies 5 cr
• Matter and Interactions 5 cr
• Electromagnetism 5 cr
• Radiation Fields and Photons 5 cr
• Introduction to Quantum Physics 5 cr
• Basics of Astronomy I 5 cr
• Basics of Astronomy II 5 cr

Chemistry

• Atoms, Molecules and Interactions 5 cr
• Matter and Interactions 5 cr
• Organic Chemistry 1 5 cr
• Inorganic Chemistry 5 cr

Computer Science

• Introduction to Programming, MOOC
• Advanced Course in Programming, MOOC
• Introduction to Databases
• Computer and Internet
• Data structures and Algorithms I, MOOC
• Data Structures and Algorithms II, MOOC
• Computing and Society
• Data Analysis with Python 2024 MOOC

Computer Science

Courses on a bachelor's degree level

• Cyber Security Base: Introduction to Cyber Security, MOOC
• Cyber Security Base: Securing Software, MOOC
• Cyber Security Base: Course Project I, MOOC
• Server-side Web Development Ruby on Rails: Hotwire, MOOC
• Functional Programming I, MOOC
• Functional Programming II, MOOC
• Elements of AI: Introduction to AI, MOOC
• Elements of AI: Building AI: Intermediate, MOOC
• Elements of AI: Building AI: Advanced, MOOC
• DevOps with Docker, MOOC
• DevOps with Docker: docker-compose, MOOC
• DevOps with Docker: security and optimization, MOOC 
• Core 5G and Beyond, MOOC 
• Test-Driven Development, MOOC
• Test-Driven Development: Full Stack, MOOC
• Computing Tools for CS Studies, MOOC

See also: Bachelor's Programme in Science
 

Courses on a master's degree level

• New! Approximation Algorithms
• New! Seminar on Theoretical Computer Science
• New! Compilers
• Seminar on Data Management for Machine Learning
• Distributed Systems
• Introduction to the Internet of Things, MOOC
• Cyber Security Base: Advanced Topics, MOOC
• Cyber Security Base: Course Project II, MOOC
• Cyber Security Base: Capture The Flag, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development, extension 1, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development, extension 2, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development: Containers, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development Project, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development Project, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development Project, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development: TypeScript, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development: React Native, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development: Continuous Integration, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development: GraphQL, MOOC
• Full Stack Web Development: Relational Databases, MOOC

Data Science

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Introduction to Data Science
• Big Data Platforms, MOOC
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• AI in Society: Introduction, MOOC
• AI in Society: AI and Discrimination, MOOC
• AI in Society: AI and State, MOOC
• AI in Society: AI and Democracy, MOOC
• New! Seminar on Generative AI

Geo Sciences 

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Environmental Geochemistry 5 op
• Life on the Baltic Continent - A Palaeozoic History 5 op
• Lithosphere Structure and Dynamics 5 op
• Geodynamics 5 op
• Environmental Magnetism 5 op

Life Informatics

Individual Courses on a master's degree level

• Introduction to Mathematical Biology I 5 cr
• Bayesian Data Analysis 5 cr
• Clinical Data Mining 5 cr

Mathematics 

Individual courses on a bachelor's degree level

• Advanced Calculus 5 cr
• Calculus IA: Limits and Differentiation 5 cr 
• Calculus IB: Integration 5 cr
• Introduction to Logic I 5 op 
• Introduction to Logic II 5 op 

See also: Bachelor's Programme in Science

Microbiology 

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Food and Environmental Hygiene and Control 5 cr
• Seminar in Evolution of Microbioal Pathogenesis 5 cr 

Physics

Individual courses on a bachelor's degree level

• Laboratory Exercises in Basic Studies of Physics I 5 cr
• Laboratory Exercises in Basic Studies of Physics II 5 cr

See also: Bachelor's Programme in Science

Individual courses on a bachelor's degree level

• New! Education and Social Justice 5 cr 
• Finnish School and Subject Education 5 cr

Courses on a master's degree level: 

Master's program in Education

• Neuroscience of Special Education 5 cr

Master's program in Changing Education

• Uncover Finnish Education 3 cr MOOC
• Uncover Finnish Education 2 cr
• Neuroscientific Approach to Artistic and Practical Subjects 5 cr
• Neuroscience in Educational Sciences 5 cr
• Introduction to Comparative and International Education: Policies and Practices 5 cr  
• Finnish School and Subject Education 5 cr

Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics  

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Cost-Benefit Analysis 5 cr
• Sustainable Rural Social Entrepreneurship 5 cr
• Qualitative Methods in Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics 5 cr

Law Studies

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• Introduction to Data Protection Law 2 cr, MOOC 
• International and European Migration Law 5 cr 

Social Sciences

Individual courses on a bachelor's degree level

• Theoretical Thinking in Sociology 5 cr

Individual courses on a master's degree level

• New! Sociology of Belonging 5 cr
• Social Psychological Perspectives on Inequalities 5 cr
• New! Critical and Intersectional Social Psychologies of Gender 5 cr
• Sustainable Welfare, Sustainability Course II 5 cr
• Sustainable Welfare 5 cr
• Disability in Global Perspectives 5 cr

Master's Programme in English Studies

• Working with Text in Python 5 cr MOOC
• Natural Language Processing for Linguists 5 cr MOOC

Other courses

• New! Advanced Business English Communication 2 op
• Advanced English: Professional Writing 2 op
• New!: Advanced Chinese 4: Speaking and Writing in the Workplace 4 op
• New! Elementary Course in Ukrainian 5 cr
• Slavic Peoples and Languages 5 cr
• New! Latvian 1 5 cr