"Resource Guides" are offered for the art, economics, language and literature, music, science/social science, and Super Quiz events. The "Super Quiz Resource Guide" is a compendium of previously published articles, whereas the other "Resource Guides" are composed by individual writers under contract with USAD. The aim of the "Resource Guide" is to assist students in their study of the topics listed in the subject area outlines. As an example, in 2003 the music topic was Romantic music. Subsequently, the "Music Resource Guide" focused on the development of Romantic music, its characteristics and the influence of the Classical era on the Romantic era. A large part of the guide focused on information about that year's composers: Beethoven, Berlioz, Rossini, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Mussorgsky, Wagner, Bizet, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Strauss. Similarly, the art topic assigned was Romantic art in the European tradition. The "Art Resource Guide" included sections detailing the lives and works of relevant artists such as Joseph Mallord William Turner, Claude Monet, Albert Bierstadt, and Camille Pissarro.