Welcome to DU301 A World of Whose Making?
We assume that you have already read the Course Guide and are familiar with the course’s aims, structure and teaching strategy. This Study Guide is a key part of the DU301 course materials. Its main aims are to:

introduce you to the main course materials
help you to plan and organize your work on the various components of the course
enable you to monitor your progress in meeting the key learning outcomes for each part of the course.

The Study Guide is organized on a week-by-week basis and should be used in conjunction with the Course Calendar, which outlines the study programme and provides an indication of what is to come. At the beginning of each week’s section you will find a list of the various study components for the week and an indication of how to allocate your study time to these components. Please note that the timings provided are for guidance and are not exact.
For the most part this Study Guide does not contain any additional study activities. All such activities are to be found in the main text: Making the International: Economic Interdependence and Political Power. Instead, it indicates
when you should study specific chapters and what you should learn from them. At the end of each of the five parts of Making the International this Study Guide will list the key learning outcomes. You might find it useful to use these lists both as advance notice of what to expect from the relevant part and as a way of making sure that you have covered the key elements. Some study activities and notes for the audio components are integrated into the Study Guide at the appropriate points. These include background information on the programme (what it is about, who is in it) and details of how you should go about learning from it. Typically, this will involve things to do or to think about before, during and after the programme, as well as links between the programme and other parts of the course. Please note that transcripts are available for all the audio programmes on the Course Website. There is also guidance about when to use the Course Website, the Concept Mapper and Interpreting Data on the CD-ROMs. You may wish to use the Course Website, the Concept Mapper and the Interpreting Data CD-ROM at other times as well as you progress through the course.