Open Textbooks/Open Educational Resources: Students

Quick blurb about course marking, if you're in a position to help let people know. The deadline comes up fast! Feel free to copy/paste and share this out!

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OSU Libraries, in response to student requests and faculty council feedback, have partnered with the Office of the Registrar to identify courses that do not require commercial materials. Faculty and instructors can request their Spring 2026 courses to be marked as not requiring commercial materials by taking 5-10 minutes to complete this form. The deadline for submissions will be in September, 2025.

Many of the faculty and instructors at Oklahoma State University have opted to use OER and library resources rather than require students purchase costly commercial textbooks. These resources can be accessed freely online, through the course dashboard, or library website. In many instances, students can take advantage of the free printing at Edmon Low library to print the resources as needed. 

The following are some of the OSU Stillwater courses whose instructors have reported not requiring students to purchase commercial textbooks:

AADM 1203 | Introduction to Arts Administration

BIOC 4213 | Disease and Metabolism

BIOC 5213 | Disease and Metabolism

CDIS 4133 | Audiology Treatment

CET 2263 | Estimating I (Yates)

DM 4294 | Interior Design Studio VI (Nazmy)

EDTC 3123 | Applications of Educational Technology (all sections)

EDTC 4110 | Learning, Design and Technology Around the World

EDTC 4113 | Applications of Media and Technology

EDTC 5053 | Learning in the Digital Age

EDTC 5103 | Advanced Computing Applications

EDTC 5153 | Computer Based Instruction Development

EDTC 5753 | Intro to Instructional Design

EDTC 5793| Design-Based Research

EDTC 6153 | Advanced Computer-Based Instructional Development

EDTC 6793 | Advanced Design-Based Research

ENGL 1113 | Composition I (all sections)

ENGL 1123 | International Freshman Composition

ENGL 1213 | Composition II (all sections)

ENGL 3323 | Technical Writing (all sections)

ENGL 3363 | Film & TV Criticism (Ulrich)

ENGR 1111 | Introduction to Engineering (Emerson, Ferrer Toledo)

GEOL 1003 | The Story of Dinosaurs

GEOL 1014 | Geology and Human Affairs (Lao Davila)

GEOL 3043 | Geology of the National Parks

GEOL 3890 | The Power of Water: Sculpting the Earth: Honors

GEOL 4313 | Introduction to Well Log Analysis

GEOL 4323 | Applied Well Log Analysis for Engineers

GEOL 5353 | Advanced Well Log Analysis

GRAD 5193 | Preparing Publishable Manuscripts

GRMN 1813 | Elementary German II

GRMN 1713 | Elementary German I (all sections)

GWST 2123 | Introduction to Gender Studies (most sections)

HDFS 2123| Developmental Disabilities: Issues Across the Lifespan

HDFS 2433 | Relationship, Development, and Marriage

HDFS 4323 | Family, School, and Community

HDFS 5333 | Early Childhood Education History and Theory

HIST 1823 | World History 1500 to Present (Foss)

HIST 3303 | Nations on the Move: Latin American Migration and Latinx Communities in the US (Foss)

HIST 3890 | American History Through the Image: Honors

HIST 2513 | From Plantation to Plate

HONR 1000 | Let's Get Creative: Odyssey of the Mind

HONR 1000 | They Wouldn't Put it on the Internet if it Weren't True

HONR 2073 | The Story of Lizzie Borden: Axe Murder in American Culture

HONR 2093 | Tornadoes in American Culture (Miller)

HONR 3023 | Contemporary Cultures of  the Western World: Honors in Central Mexico

IEM 4013 | Operations Research (Balasunduram)

IEM 4623 | Supply Chain and Logistics

IEM 5013 | Introduction to Optimization (Balasunduram)

MAE 3013 | Engineering Analysis and Methods I

MAE 4623 | Biomechanics (Hausselle)

MC 1143 | Media in a Diverse Society (Freeman, Noble, Nykolaiszyn)

MET 1121 | Technical Graphics (Yang)

MET 1123 | Technical Drawing and Basic CAD (Yang)

MET 3323 | Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (Yang)

MUSI 2603 | Film Music (Karaca)

NSCI 3223 | Nutrition Across the Lifespan (Evans)

PHIL 3003 | Symbolic Logic

PHIL 5003 | Symbolic Logic

PHIL 3433 | Happiness and Well-Being

PHIL 3783 | Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

PHIL 4983 | Knowledge and Reality

POLS 3013 | introduction to Political Inquiry

POLS 4053 | War and World Politics

POLS 4053 | Senior Capstone Seminar (Harvey)

REMS 6003 | Analyses of Variance (Cole)

PSYC 4213 | Conflict Resolution

PSYC 4243 | Psychology of Aging (Harrington)

SC 3353 | Persuasive Writing for Strategic Communicators (Cain-Wood, Avance, Bernhardt)

SC 3443 | Introduction to Social Media

SOC 4333 | Criminology (Constantin)

SOC 4573 | Victimology (Constantin)

SOIL 4683 | Soil, Water and Weather

SPCH 2713 | Intro to Speech Communications (all sections)

SPCH 2890 | Honors Experience in Speech

SPCH 3733| Elements of Persuasion

SPCH 4753 | Intercultural Communication

SPCH 4763 | Organizational Communication

SPCH 4793 | Nonverbal Communication

UNIV 2511 | Introduction to Health Careers

UNIV 2611| Health Portfolio and Self-Development

UNIV 3511 | Health Professional School Preparation (Jessica Priddy)

Talk to your academic advisor today!

Faculty and instructors, please contact kathy.essmiller@okstate.edu if your class is on this list in error, or if it has not been included and you would like for it to be. Thank you!

Updated 4.28.25, KE