Open Educational Resources
Here are some links to Open Educational Resources, which are openly licensed course materials, that may be used in the classes listed below. De Anza encourages the adoption and use of OERs to make course materials more affordable and accessible to students.
Important Note to Students
Some of these materials may not be used in every quarter. Be sure to check with your instructor or the class syllabus for the most current information about required textbooks or materials.- Students: Learn about more ways to save on books.
- Instructors: Learn about De Anza's OER Initiative.
Find your class and click on the title to access the OER:
- ADMJ/ICS 29: "The Amendments of the U.S. Constitution"
- ANTH 1: "The Age of Reason" by Paine
- ASTR 4/10: "Astronomy" by Franknoi, et al., OpenStax College
- BIOL 10: "Concepts of Biology" by Fowler, et al., OpenStax College
- BUS 10: "Exploring Business" by Collins, Creative Commons Attribution
- BUS 56: "Human Relations" by Dias, Creative Commons Attribution
- BUS 87: "The Power of Selling" by Richmond, Creative Commons Attribution
- CHEM 1A/B/C: "Chemistry" by Flowers, et al., OpenStax College
- C D 56: "Preschool English Learners, A Resource Guide" California Department of Education
- CIS 33A: "Learning Pearl" by Schwartz Foy & Phoenix, O'Reilly Media
- CIS 40/41A: "Think Python" by Downey, Green Tea Press
- CIS 64F: "Mining of Massive Datasets" by Leskovec
- COMM 1/10: "The Public Speaking Project Book" Creative Commons Attribution
- COMM 7 & 10: "Communication in the Read World: An Introduction to Communication Studies" by Jones, Creative Commons Attribution
- COMM 10: "A Primer on Communication Studies" by Schmitz, Creative Commons Attribution
- COMM 10: "Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice & Ethics of Public Speaking" by Wrench, et al., Creative Commons Attribution
- COMM 70: "An Introduction to Organizational Communication" by Wrench & Punyanunt-Carter, Creative Commons Attribution
- ECON 1: "Principles of Macroeconomics" by Rittenberg, Creative Commons Attribution
- ECON 2: "Principles of Microeconomics" by Rittenberg, Creative Commons Attribution
- ELIT 8: "The Giver" by Lowry
- ELIT 10: "The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway
- ELIT 10: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Hurston
- ELIT 17: "The Complete Works of Shakespeare"
- ELIT 46C: "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens
- ELIT 46C: "Jane Eyre" by Bronte
- ESCI 1: "Biology" 2/e by Clark, Choi & Douglas, OpenStax College
- E S 1/2: "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation" by Theis & Tomkin, Connexions
- ESL 252: "Of Mice and Men" by Steinbeck
- EWRT 1A: "1984" by Orwell
- EWRT 1A: "The Alchemist" by Coelho
- EWRT 1A & 2: "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Wilde
- EWRT 1A: "Life on the Mississippi" by Twain
- EWRT 1A: "Moby Dick" by Melville
- EWRT 1A: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave" by Douglas
- EWRT 1A: "Writing for Success" University of Minnesota Libraries
- EWRT 1B: "Age of Innocence" by Wharton
- EWRT 1B: "An Ideal Husband" by Wilde
- EWRT 1B: "The Dutchman" by Jones
- EWRT 1B: "Ethan Frome" by Wharton
- EWRT 1B: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Jacobs
- EWRT 1B: "Madea" by Eurpides
- EWRT 1B: "The Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne
- EWRT 1B: "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" by Shelly
- EWRT 2: "The Complete Works of Plato"
- EWRT 2: "The Dutchman" by Jones
- EWRT 2: "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" by Hume
- EWRT 2: "Discourse on Method" by Descartes
- EWRT 2: "Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo" translated by Grube, by Plato
- EWRT 2: "Meditations on First Philosophy" by Descartes
- EWRT 2: "Republic" translated by Grube, by Plato
- EWRT 200: "The Hobbit" by Tolkien
- EWRT 200: "The American Heritage Dictionary"
- EWRT 211: "Frankenstein" by Shelley
- GEO 10: "World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization" Creative Commons Attribution
- HIST 3C: "Nectar in Sieve" by Markandaya
- HIST 17A/B/C: "U.S. History" by Corbett, et al., OpenStax College
- HIST 17B: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Stowe
- HLTH 57A – see the instructor's website for this class: marydonahue.org/health-57a
- HUMI 7: "Antigone" by Sophocles
- HUMI 7: "Selected Poems by Rumi" by Rumi
- JOUR 80: "Writing for Strategic Communication Industries" by Roberts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- MATH 10: "Collaborative Statistics" by Illowsky & Dean, Connexions
- MATH 10: "Inferential Statistics: A Holistic Approach" Mo Geraghty, De Anza College
- MATH 10: "Introductory Statistics" by Illowsky & Dean, OpenStax College
- MATH 11: "Applied Finite Mathematics" by Sekhon & Bloom, De Anza College
- MATH 22: "Applied Discrete Structures, V. 2.0" by Doerr & Levasseur, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- MATH 22: "Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction" by Levin, University of Northern Colorado
- MATH 44: "Mathematics for the Liberal Arts" by Lippman, Lumen Learning
- MATH 114: "Intermediate Algebra, Level 3: Student Workbook" by Bambhania, De Anza College
- MATH 210: "Prealgebra" by Marecek & Anthony-Smith, OpenStax College
- MATH 210: "Prealgebra Textbook" Mathematics Department: College of the Redwoods
- MATH 212: "Beginning Algebra, Level 2: Student Workbook" by Bambhania, De Anza College
- PARA 96A: "Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians" by Southern California Association of Law Librarians
- PHIL 1: "Future of an Illusion" by Freud
- PHIL 20B: "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphyics" by Kant
- PSYC 1: "Psychology" by Spielman, et al., OpenStax College
- READ 200: "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway
- READ 211: "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald
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