I just saw this on cgtalk.com
Starting this fall Academy of Arts University, San Francisco is offering an online Houdini course designed to introduce students to various aspects of the program. Topics covered in the course are: traditional and procedural modeling and texturing, extensive use of attributes, expressions, particle effects, CHOPs, VOPs, RBD. Here's the link to the online course description:
http://online.academyart.edu/classes/CA3D/class_ca3d_437.html [online.academyart.edu]