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History offers for-credit college course with University of Oklahoma

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945.
(Joe Rosenthal / Associated Press)
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Three credits shy of your college degree? Cable TV may have the solution for you.

In recent years, History has made a name for itself airing stuff like “Pawn Stars,” “Ice Road Truckers” and “Ax Men,” as well as the scripted hit, “Vikings.” Now it’s getting into the college education business.

The channel has teamed with the University of Oklahoma for what’s called the fist “network-branded online course for college credit.”

The course is called “United States, 1865 to the Present” and will cover such topics as industrialization and urbanization, the Gilded Age and progressivism, the two World Wars, the Cold War, Vietnam, Watergate and America in the current century.

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The 16-week course, which will begin in January, is being taught by OU professor Steve Gillon, who also has the distinction of being History’s “scholar-in-residence.”

The course will use the Janux online learning community system created by OU.

Prospective students will have the option to sign up for the $500 version for three college credits or the $250 version that is just the class with no credit.

For an additional $2.99 you can rent “Animal House” on Amazon and have Dean Wormer tell you that going through life fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

Further courses between History and the University of Oklahoma are in the works for future semesters.

More information can be found here.

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