THE NEWS IN BRIEF: Many Popular Classes To Be Offered As Online Courses at the Extension School in 2006-2007 Academic Year

Students may now want to think twice about falling asleep in class, because someone could be watching them snooze from a computer across the country or around the globe.

Twenty-five online-only versions of Harvard College courses, including several from the Core curriculum, will be offered to Harvard Extension School students during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Professors of the College courses also head the Extension School classes.

In the fall, College course lectures available to Extension School students will include Historical Study B-54, “World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II”—taught by Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier—Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres”; Quantitative Reasoning 50, “Medical Detectives”; and Social Analysis 76, “Global Health Challenges.”

Spring courses include Historical Study A-12, “International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World”; Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac”; and Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.”

Other courses include Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” taught by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, and English 125, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” taught by Visual and Environmental Studies Department Chair Marjorie Garber.

Students taking these classes through the Extension school pay $650 to take the class for no credit or Extension School credit, and $1,575 for graduate credit. The one exception is “Bits,” which charges $1,575 for noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit.

—BRITTNEY L. MORASKI