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Provider: Shmoop
Course: Literature in the Media
Course content: Brief on-site lessons include occasional embedded videos, but largely link out to external resources and/or require that you borrow or purchase outside materials.  I've posted a list of the materials I needed that weren't linked, free resources: http://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/showthre...?tid=27797
Final exam format: 50 multiple-choice questions to answer in 2 hours.  (It shouldn't take anywhere close to 2 hours.)
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Quizzes and tests didn't match up very well at all, but the final exam did mesh pretty well with the unit tests.  Some questions were familiar, and the format was very familiar.  (Unit tests are 20 questions in 1 hour.)
Time taken on course: This took me about 3 weeks.  There's a good bit of reading/viewing but, more importantly, I had a lot of delays where I discovered I needed a particular resource and had to take time to obtain it.
Familiarity with subject before course: Varied.  Because this covers a variety of media, I knew some of it well, some of it okay, and some of it not at all.  I'm pretty sure I would not have been able to pass the final without working my way through the course.  Even if I had known all of the material, I still wouldn't have been familiar with their take on it, which is essential for the tests in this course.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know:  It's kind of a fun class, but it's all over the place, and it can take longer than expected if you aren't prepared ahead of time with the external resources you need.
1-10 Difficulty level: Content-wise, 4.  In terms of being able to give them the answers they want, 8.