As promised, though a couple days late, I’m posting the latest UNC-Asheville Humanities 324 lecture from this week. The topic was The Enlightenment, and you can read the lecture outline [pdf]. Dr. Rizzo was the speaker. We watched some clips of a movie about this guy to the left, Olaudah Equiano.
For the complete podcast series, check this post: http://blog.afletcher.net/2010/01/humanities-324-lecture-podcast/
As promised, the recordings of the the Humanities 324 lecture’s have been podcasted and were just accepted into the iTunes store. Here are all the links.
- Subscribe in RSS reader
- View and stream on the web
- Subscribe in iTunes
- New episodes should post Friday afternoons.
- I’m using an iPod Touch 2nd gen. with headphones and included mic. The recording quality will get better as I experiment with where to sit and where to set the mic (I’m trying to be unobtrusive).
- Also, somebody told me that UNC-A did or perhaps still does offer a podcast of these lectures. I couldn’t find it on their website, can anyone confirm or deny?
I really think that these lectures are valuable and informative and should be available to the public. Many of the top tier colleges like MIT, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, et cetera offer podcasts of their classes to the public. After all, schools are in the business of selling degrees, not information. Let’s emancipate the information from the lecture hall. Enjoy!
Well the semester has just started and I’ve been trying to think up new ways to stay engaged and motivated in school, so I’m going to synthesize school with the geeky things that I love to do like blogging. With that in mind, I’m going to (attempt) to record and post every HUM 324 lecture this semester here on. You’ll find them all under this category, and if you want to subscribe in your RSS reader, here’s the feed. And Coming Soon: This will be a podcast, which you will be able to subscribe to in iTunes. The lecture outlines are posted as well.
Oh, and while you’re at it, if you use this, add me on the bookFace.
Yes, I’m bootlegging academia and podcasting it. ZOMG! Technology FTW!
So, as some may know I got accepted to UNC-Asheville for the fall. I’d been trying to go for 6 years and kept getting sent back to the minor-leagues, but I graduated last month — and got called up to the majors. I had nearly given up on my dream of higher education, and now that I’m really there I find myself to be childishly excited about all of it, right down to the droll and boring aspects of registration and orientation which I completed last week.
I’m stoked about my schedule. Here it is:
- American Indian: Pre-Contact to 1840
- World Civilizations to 1500
- Macroeconomics
- Tai-Chi
- Germany: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- The United States after 1865
I hope that I am challenged and accepted by my peers. At AB-Tech, I consistently felt that I had a grasp of the material that exceeded what was expected, and there were many missed opportunities to engage the other students because they had little broader educational context to plug in to. Just ask me about some of the PowerPoint fueled presentations that I saw get passing grades. Embarassing. Edward Tufte would have croaked.
I’ll see you on campus! I’ll be the one with the big smile.
