Just this week, his students said they couldn t finish their reading assigrunent on Aristotle. The search engine was down at Massachusetts Institute of Technology s on-line classics archives. No matter, said Eckhouse. There was another database of Greek and Roman texts at the University of Kentucky's Web site that they could search instead.
Students still attend weekly lectures and read textbooks.
But the course syllabus is on-line, and is dotted with Intemet links that carry students to troves of digitized writings and resources with the click of a mouse. Eckhouse's class has practical reasons for tapping into the Net. The high price tag would have limited his reading assignments. He saves us a lot of money that way. The global nature of the Net also allows Eckhouse's students to reach resources they wouldn t find in book stores or libraries, he said.