text: Matthew McConaughey will teach a film class at the University of Texas at Austin this fall 
   
   They say there are only two things in life that are certain: death and, eventually, you will come back to Texas. And Matthew McConaughey is doing just that. Well, the returning to Texas part. 
   
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   McConaughey is headed back to the University of Texas at Austin, his alma mater, this fall to teach a filmmaking class, the university announced Thursday morning. 
   
   McConaughey will take students "behind the scenes" of his upcoming film Free State of Jones through recorded videos and at least one on-campus visit, Lauren Phillips, public affairs representative for the Moody College of Communications, told MySA.com Thursday. 
   
   He will be joined in the videos by Gary Ross, the director of the Hunger Games, and the duo will admit 30 students into the higher-level class. 
   
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   McConaughey and Ross, accompanied by Rice, will show students clips from the movie and followed by recorded videos explaining why it was filmed that way, Phillips said. 
   
   This will be the second time McConaughey will co-teach this course with university lecturer Scott Rice. During the spring 2016 semester, students could take the 3-hour class. Phillips said that not too many photos or videos could be taken during the class because Free State of Jones had not yet been released. 
   
   Students had to sign a nondisclosure form as well, Phillips said. 
   
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   The class is an upper-level division course, so freshmen and sophomores will not be able to register, she said. But there are no special prerequisites or fees to take the once-a-week class. 
   
   The Oscar-winning UT alum often visits the university, giving pep talks to the football team and attending games. 
   
   kbradshaw@express-news.net 
   
   Twitter: @kbrad5 ||||| Alright, alright, alright! Matthew McConaughey is returning to his alma mater the University of Texas at Austin to teach a film class this fall, the university announced on Thursday, June 30. 
   
   The Oscar-winning actor, 46, will coteach the class with Hunger Games director Gary Ross and university lecturer Scott Rice. McConaughey and Ross will take 30 lucky students “behind the scenes” of their recently released film Free State of Jones through recorded videos and one on-campus visit, according to the San Antonio Express-News. The movie is about a Confederate Army medic who gets branded as a deserter and is forced to run away, finding refuge with runaway slaves. 
   
   “He’s in the movies. He’s on the field. Now, Matthew McConaughey is in the classroom,” UT Austin wrote in a video on its Facebook page that introduced the school’s new professor. 
   
   The higher level class, which is part of the Moody College of Communications, will be open to juniors and seniors, and there are no prerequisites or fees to take the once-a-week course. 
   
   This is the second time McConaughey is coteaching this course. A similar class that showed students the filmmaking process for Free State of Jones was offered during the spring 2016 semester, but students could not take photos or videos and had to sign nondisclosures since the film had not yet been released. 
   
   The 1993 University of Texas graduate — who got his degree in radio, television and film — frequently returns to the campus for the Longhorns football games. Back in September 2014, he gave a motivational speech to the players and their coach to pump them up before a big game against the University of Kansas. 
   
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target: – Can we get an "all right, all right, all right" for the University of Texas at Austin's new film instructor? The college announced Thursday that Matthew McConaughey will team up with Gary Ross, the director of his new film, Free State of Jones, and a university instructor to teach a film class at his alma mater this fall, Us Weekly reports. "He's in the movies. He's on the field. Now, Matthew McConaughey is in the classroom," says a post celebrating "Professor McConaughey" on UT's Facebook page. His instruction, however, will be provided via recorded videos, though with at least one on-campus visit. Thirty juniors and seniors will get a "behind-the-scenes" glimpse at how the movie was made, with McConaughey and Ross, who also directed The Hunger Games, showing clips from the movie and then delving into why certain scenes were shot the way they were, per the San Antonio Express-News. It's McConaughey's second stint at UT for this class, which he also taught in the spring amid lots of nondisclosure forms because the movie hadn't come out yet. (McConaughey does pretty well with higher-learning institutions.)