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college course stories: 3 news summaries

Colleges Consider Move
 to 3-Year Degrees

Downturn has colleges looking for ways to save students time, money

May 23, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A growing number of colleges are looking at ways to cram 4-year degree courses into 3 to help students combat tough times, the Washington Post reports. More than half of teens have changed their college plans because of the economy, according to a recent survey, and many in the world... More »

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education • higher education • college • universities • college tuition • colleges and universities • college course

tech review

 Website Lets You 
 Into Harvard—Free 

Academic Earth offers video lectures from top schools

Feb 22, 09 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - No notes, no homework, and you can wear your PJs the entire time you "sit in" on Harvard classes—online. Academic Earth's online classes are "unexpectedly irresistible," Farhad Manjoo writes for Slate. "It's like Hulu, but for nerds." The company's collection of videotaped lectures from... More »

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Stanford • online videos • Harvard • Yale • college course • Academic Earth • Richard Ludlow

Beer 101?
Now, That's
a Party School!

UWisconsin offers course in bacteriology of fermentation

Nov 10, 08 4:49 PM CST
(Newser) - The University of Wisconsin is starting a class with one thing you’d think its students would already know well: beer. But the offering is about the science of brewing, focuses on fermentation, and is taught by the bacteriology department, the Chicago Tribune reports. “This is not... More »

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alcohol • beer • bacteria • University of Wisconsin • fermentation • college course

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