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Would You Take A College Course on 'YouTube'?

Sep 18 2007 - 8:00am

After realizing most of the videos on YouTube [0] are low quality and plot-less, Alexandra Juhasz, who is a media studies professor at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, decided the phenomena needed to be studied.

Juhasz has created a course she calls "Learning from YouTube," which allows Pitzer students to take a better look at the content posted on the site. Professor Juhasz and her students meet in a real class room, but most of the content of the course is available virtually on its "Learning From YouTube" [1] channel. YouTube is "a phenomenon that should be studied," student Darren Grose told Newsvine [2]. "You can learn a lot about American culture and just Internet culture in general." I think it's a fun idea, but do you think any of the content on YouTube is really college credit worthy?



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