UNC's Bill Ferris: Documentarian of the South
Posted Apr 29, 2015
If the American South remains a provincial punch line for the world at large, no one bothered to tell the 9,000-plus students from 128 countries that Bill Ferris spent six weeks teaching late last year. They all enrolled in what UNC-Chapel Hill calls a MOOC, or a Massive Open Online Course. The program explored oral histories and folk traditions, Southern writers and musicians, with sounds as regional and rich as fife-and-drum bands, work chants and the Delta blues.
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