Hey there guys - would you like to take a free college Geology class?
Hmmm....okay, me rephrase that. Would you like to watch free actual college geology class
lectures for your own edification, although you won't qualify for credit or get to take exams or anything like that?
Well you're in luck! This guy Nick Zentner has been teaching geology at Central Washington University for almost 30 years. On his YouTube channel you can find videos of several community lectures he gave a few years ago on topics specific to PNW geology (some super interesting stuff in that region - like the Missoula floods, flood basalts, and Juan de Fuca Plate tsunamis, etc). More recently, last year he gave several livestream lectures from home during the pandemic. He's got a great teaching flow, he's seriously watchable - his community lectures are 1 to 1.5 hours long but I recommend checking them out if you can.
He has decided to livestream his entire winter-quarter Geology 101 class on YouTube, which starts tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021). Once it begins classes will be every weekday
except Wednesdays at 10AM PT, which is 12PM CT - calculate as appropriate - and the lectures will be 50 minutes long. Since he'll actually be teaching a class, there won't be any audience interaction via YouTube like there was with his previous livestreams. But, basically, you get a free college-level intro Geology course for funsies. And as normal for YouTube, the videos remain up so you can still watch them even if you can't make the streams live.
Details here:
And you can check out Nick's channel
here.