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More and More Academic Video Game Courses

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, Sep 24, 2005.

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    Yesterday, Yahoo published a nice article about the rising tendency to include video game related courses at an academic levels up to the point of enabling you to obtain a master's in a game-related field. Here's a bit of what the article says:

    "The concept of designing good video games, or designing good human-computer interactions — that's what I'm interested in," said Chelsea Hash, a senior with a video game minor and a major in electronic arts.

    From Brooklyn's Pratt Institute to the University of Colorado, at least 50 schools around the country now offer courses in video game study, development or design, according to industry groups.

    Some of the schools offer full-blown academic programs. The University of Washington offers a certificate in game design; the Art Institute of Phoenix gives a bachelor of arts in game art and design; and the University of Pennsylvania has a master's in computer graphics and game technology.

    I think high time. You no longer just study literature or physics or law or medicine, but we have lots of highly specialised, sometimes niche and even downright bizarre fields, so may as well have games. Why no master's in client support, though? :p

    Read the rest at Yahoo.
     
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