Morehouse College students will be able to take a black history course across the metaverse beginning in spring 2023. History professor Ovell Hamilton will teach the course, called History of the African Diaspora Since 1800.

Students will begin the course with the Haitian Revolution and end with the Civil Rights Movement. The course, offered in collaboration with technology company VictoryXR, will use the metaverse to show students the reality of experiences like transporting enslaved Africans to the United States or navigating the Underground Railroad.

“That’s an experience that you wouldn’t have if you were sitting in a classroom, if you were sitting in a lecture,” Hamilton told NBC News. “When you go there and see the bottom of a slave ship, you see the slaves piled up…