Progressive Rock University

J. Happyears, that's awesome.

Let me try this; this is a pretty neat idea and I've thought about a similar concept before. Hmmmm... I'll tackle Electronic Prog, I think. We'll say this person is tackling 17 credit hours and that this is their first semester.

TD-101: Tangerine Dream  (3 credits),  Professor: E. Froese
TD-102: Tangerine Dream  (3 credits),  Professor: J. Froese
KF-101: Kraftwerk  (3 credits),  Professor: R. Hutter
KS-101: Klaus Schulze  (3 credits),  Professor: K. Schulze
BE-101: Brian Eno  (3 credits),  Professor: B. Eno
EL-101: Intro to Electronic Prog  (2 credits),  Professor: Ricochet V. Halloway  ()

Textbook wrote: What you could actually do is, using the community here, open a virtual online prog university. People could give a series of lectures in thread form about various subjects, open for discussion and debate, asking interested parties to study and submit writing on various topics which the expert then assesses. Via thread of youtube, documentaries about musical forms or particular artists could be produced. Using the magic of the internet, 'students', or those following the lecture could even produce practical, audio recordings that reflect what they have learned or studied, testing theories.

That sounds like an incredibly good idea to me.

The problem is attracting people who don't already know more (or think they do) than the person running the course. I mean, a whole lot of people who know eclectic prog inside out sign up for the eclectic prog course and then learn nothing they didn't already know, or spend all their time going "Well come on, so and so wasn't all that" or "What about so and so? Why aren't they in the course?" You may end up preaching to the choir.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Textbook wrote: What you could actually do is, using the community here, open a virtual online prog university. People could give a series of lectures in thread form about various subjects, open for discussion and debate, asking interested parties to study and submit writing on various topics which the expert then assesses. Via thread of youtube, documentaries about musical forms or particular artists could be produced. Using the magic of the internet, 'students', or those following the lecture could even produce practical, audio recordings that reflect what they have learned or studied, testing theories. That sounds like an incredibly good idea to me.

I'd definitely be interested in this.

Blowin Free wrote: KoS wrote: Intro to Snobbery and Pretentiousness 1000 credits to the teacher, 1 credit to the student, taught by Keith Emerson

Tin Of Hurri Curri wrote:   HI-101:  Overview Of Prog History  (3 credits),  Professor:  Binns

I would envision the university as a sub-forum. If people are interested in doing this, let me know. I'm not knowledgable enough to be a lecturer but I could be a dean/administrator in terms of having someone oversee the project- a lack of knowledge is something of a plus in that capacity as I could judge whether something had appeal/import as explained by the lecturer without my own agenda getting in the way. Of course there is also the alternative of having no dean/administrator and just letting anyone who wants to go for it.

I am nowhere near knowledgeable in prog to be a lecturer so I would get to be a student.

Well there could be general, 101 style courses Not everybody wants a six month programme about 1:34-1:47 of Close To The Edge.

I'll be the dinner lady.

I don't really know much enough to teach. I'll just apply to work for admissions.

My application:

Let me in because prog is pretty OK.
If you don't then I'll call up my buddy R. Fripp and he'll guitar you into submission.


@Alex:
I believe you could easily teach at least an intro course and I'd sign up for it.

@Textbook:
I'm surprised at how good of a section 1:34-1:47 of CttE is at being a section (if that made sense).