Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): A Guide for Student Advocates: No Cost Textbook Courses

No Cost Textbook Courses

This list is based on textbook adoptions provided to the University of Arkansas Bookstore as of April 11, 2025. Please verify the necessary course materials through the U of A Schedule of Courses or with your instructor, as there could be changes before classes begin in Spring 2024.

Are you an instructor using Open Educational Resources in a class not listed here? Please email oer@uark.edu

Summer 2025 Courses Using Open Educational Resources

Course Name and Number	Section Number	Textbook/Material Used
ARSC 32003 Professional ePortfolio	All sections	Building a Professional Portfolio*
ASTRO 20003 Survey of the Universe	All sections	OpenStax Astronomy 2e
BUSI 3100V Internship	All sections	Introduction to Marketing*
BUSI 3200V Internship	All sections	Introduction to Marketing*
COMM 10003 Basic Course in the Arts: Film Lecture	All sections	Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema*
HDFS 24903 Introduction to Cultural Competence	All sections	All Resources on Blackboard*
HIST 11293 Institutions and Ideas of World Civilizations II	All sections	OpenStax World History Volume II
HIST 20003 History of the American People to 1877	All sections	OpenStax US History
HIST 20103 History of the American People 1877 to Present	All sections except 015	OpenStax US History
JOUR 10203 Media and Society	All sections	The Mass Media Landscape*
JOUR 43303 Ethics in Journalism	All sections	Ethics in Journalism and Strategic Media*
MKTG 34303/343H3 Introduction to Marketing	All sections	Introduction to Marketing*
PHBL 11003	All sections	Personal Health and Safety*
PBHL 46103 Principles of Epidemiology	All sections	Foundations of Epidemiology
PLSC 20103 Introduction to Comparative Politics	All sections	Introduction to Comparative Politics
STEM 40303 Introduction to STEM Education	All sections	Astronomy for Educators*

Fall 2025 Courses Using Open Educational Resources

Course Name and Number	Section Number	Textbook/Material Used
AAST 10003 Introduction to African and African American Studies	All sections	Various Open Textbooks
AMPD 10203 Introduction to Apparel Production	All sections	Introduction to Apparel Production Workbook*
AMPD 20303 Computer-Based Methods for Apparel	All sections	Various Open Textbooks
AMPD 40203 Merchandising Application for the Apparel Industry	All sections	Various Open Textbooks
ARSC 10401 Special Topics in Student Success	All sections	Blackboard Curated Resources
ARSC 20003 Navigating Personal and Professional Growth	All sections	Blackboard Curated Resources
ARSC 32003 Professional ePortfolio	All sections	Building a Professional Portfolio*
ASTRO 20003 Survey of the Universe	All sections	OpenStax Astronomy 2e
BUSI 3100V Internship	All sections	Introduction to Marketing*
BUSI 3200V Internship	All sections	Introduction to Marketing*
CIED 10103 Introduction to Education	All sections	Introduction to Education*
CIED Classroom Learning Theory	All Sections	Classroom Learning Theory*
COMM 10003 Basic Course in the Arts: Film Lecture	All sections	Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema*
ELAC 50403 Research Writing in the STEM Fields	All sections	Sourcing, Summarizing, and Synthesizing: Skills for Effective Research Writing*
ELEC 31204/312H4	All sections	System & Signal Analysis*
EXSC 40103 Clinical Exercise Physiology	All sections	EKG Essentials: A Student Handbook*
HDFS 24903 Introduction to Cultural Competence	All sections	All Resources on Blackboard*
HDFS 44703 Multicultural Families	All sections	All Resources on Blackboard*
HIST 11293 Institutions and Ideas of World Civilizations II	003, 004, 902	OpenStax World History Volume II
HIST 20003 History of the American People to 1877	004, 006, 007, 008, 009, 010, 012, 015, 901, 902	OpenStax US History
HIST 20103 History of the American People 1877 to Present	003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 009, 011, 012, 013, 014, 015, 016, 017, 019, 020, 021, 022, 901, 902	OpenStax US History
HRDE 52303 Human Resource Development Employment, Legal, and Ethical Issues	All Sections	Critical Employment, Ethical, and Legal Scenarios in Human Resource Development*
JOUR 10203 Media and Society	All sections	The Mass Media Landscape*
JOUR 43303 Ethics in Journalism	All sections	Ethics in Journalism and Strategic Media*
MKTG 34303/343H3 Introduction to Marketing	All sections	Introduction to Marketing*
MUTH Basic Musicianship	All sections	Open Music Theory
PBHL 11003 Personal Health and Safety	001, 002, 003	Personal Health and Safety*
PBHL 46103 Principles of Epidemiology	All sections	Foundations of Epidemiology
PHYS 20304/203H4 University Physics I	All sections	University Physics I: Classical Mechanics*
PLSC 20103 Introduction to Comparative Politics	All sections	Introduction to Comparative Politics
SCWK 40903 Human Behavior and the Social Environment I	All sections	Human Behavior and the Social Environment I*
SCWK 41003 Human Behavior and the Social Environment II	All sections	Human Behavior and the Social Environment II*
SOCI 20103 Social Problems	901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906 (online sections only)	Social Problems*
SPAN 43303 Business Spanish	All sections	Negocios y Desarrollo Profesional: Perspectivas en Espanol*
STEM 40303 Introduction to STEM Education	All sections	Astronomy for Educators*
WLLC 30503 The Colonial French in the Mississippi Valley	All sections	Language Encounters on the French Colonial Mississippi