The University of Southern California and The New York Times have joined hands to offer new online courses for continuing education program. The New York Times Knowledge Network and USC will offer around 40 online courses in seven subjects including architecture, cinematic arts, arts management, business, medicine and politics.
These online courses will be accessible for working as well as non-working adults who are keen to learn new skills and develop expertise in them. The faculties for these online courses will involve USC faculty as well as The New York Times journalists. Felice Nudelman, the executive director of education at the Times Company, was in the opinion that "We have decided that these online courses will not count towards a degree but might gradually start full-fledged degree programs.''
