Dr. Doug Davis, Professor of Social Sciences at Haverford College in Philadelphia, has introduced a course reviewing “self-expression on the internet”, with special attention being paid to blogging.

Hopeful of encouraging his students to produce self-expressive, motivated papers, Dr. Davis plans to divide classes into groups to form manually-linked individual weblogs to share personal experiences, as well as to review and discuss course related texts.

Included in the subjects are an introduction to blogging, which covers online registration and posting guidelines. The course is offered as a ‘first-year intensive’ study program, with a heavy emphasis on the establishment and maintenance of a weblog.

Cheerfully entitled ‘My Blog, Myself’, the course becomes particularly relevant when Dr. Davis’s primary teaching areas of ‘adolescence’ and ‘theories of personality’ are related to the assumed average (ie: youthful) age of his students.

To read more about Dr. Davis’s plan for 'the bloggers of the future', go here: Link