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At Penn, Students Can Get Credit For ‘Wasting Time On The Internet'

At This University, Students Can Get Credit For ‘Wasting Time On The Internet'
Farah Mohamed
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Managing Editor, The WorldPost

Lucky creative writing students in a University of Pennsylvania seminar will be able to earn academic credit for wasting time on the Internet next spring. The class, appropriately titled “Wasting Time on the Internet,” will require its students to spend the three-hour weekly sessions dividing their attention between the world of the Internet and the classroom.

The instructor, Kenneth Goldsmith, tells The Washington Post that he will strictly enforce “a state of distraction” among the students — exactly the sort of thing he and virtually every other professor on Earth spends time trying to eliminate from their classes.

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