Friday, September 7, 2007

America the Textbook

Grad school colleague of mine has been using Jon Stewart's America as a textbook in Intro to American Politics. Now he seems to be getting some interesting press. Don't anyone get any ideas, movies are enough of a stretch for me.

1 comment:

danylo said...

You know his intro classes will be full next semester. It'd be interesting to see how effective this approach is in comparison to regular textbook. I can see using some chapters from Stewart's book as auxiliary to the primary text, but a complete substitution?...After all, the whole fun of Stewart's book in the first place is its unusual, unexpected side. I wonder if the effect will remain once the novelty wears out?