An exciting new online book club!

Just a quick post to share something I think is wonderful: there is a new MOOC (Massive Online Open Class) that started on the EdX MOOC platform: a year long book club/English literature class, taught by Berkeley professor Maggie Sokolik.  There will be one classic book a month taught for the next 12 months, and you can sign up for each month individually.  The class starts out now, December 2014, with A Christmas Carol, and will continue in January with Huckleberry Finn.  Here is a short interview with Professor Sokolik with more explanation about the course on the EdX blog.

I, for one, and very excited about this - not only have I not really read a lot of the great classics of English literature (having a degree in French literature), but there isn't much opportunity here in Belgium to belong to an English speaking book club.

Here is the complete list of books the course will cover:

December: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

January: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

February: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

March: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

April: Dubliners, James Joyce

May: Dracula, Bram Stoker

June: The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

July: A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle

August: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

September: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

October: Room with a View, EM Forster

November: Call of the Wild, Jack London

I already took one MOOC through EdX this year (The Science of Happiness) and I really enjoyed the self paced learning environment, and so I am looking forward to continuing with the BerkeleyX Book Club.

Interested?  Check it out!