While some colleges have been stretching to come up with academic uses of the iPod, at least one university has decided to require students to buy the popular device for its intended use—music. Radford University is requiring music majors to have an iPod starting this fall so they can study snippets of songs, according to the Collegiate Times.
Faculty members plan to assign recordings and create quizzes and other interactive activities with pieces of music. Students who don’t already own an iPod will have to shell out $269, with the education discount, for the music player. But one freshman said it beats buying numerous CD’s to get all the music students would be required to study. —Dan Carnevale
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