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Filming the first science foundation course

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Dean of Science, Mike Pentz, OU Academic Peggy Varley and OU Academic Steven Rose filming a TV programme for the first Science Foundation Course, S100, in 1976.

This course included a home experiment kit that allowed students to measure atmospheric sulphur dioxide pollution outside their home, and to identify moth species. Each year a new TV programme was created to discuss the results, with OU students’ findings displayed on a large map of the UK.

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