Another educational glimpse of a dumbed down course
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Video Game Studies
If you need a break from math at MIT, “Introduction to Videogame Studies” might appeal to you.
“Students play and analyze videogames while reading current research and theory,” reads the course description, which says students are expected to beat the games too, “in consultation with the instructor.”
Annual tuition at MIT is almost $40,000, which works out to around $4,500 per class.
Source: AP/Electronic Arts
Of course, at MIT “Video Game Studies” might actually be a useful course for computer science type students who plan to create video games...
there are many physicists who have been lured to the dark side of assisting proggers create realistic interactive gaming environments. i’ve heard it pays well, but id, raven, and activision never returns my calls. :(
If you need a break from math at MIT, “Introduction to Videogame Studies” might appeal to you.
“Students play and analyze videogames while reading current research and theory,” reads the course description, which says students are expected to beat the games too, “in consultation with the instructor.”
Annual tuition at MIT is almost $40,000, which works out to around $4,500 per class."
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that "Videogame Studies" is a more useful and potentially job winning course for a typical MIT Computer Sciences grad than practically anything is for an Oberlin College Gender Studies grad. I'll betcha a cyber-nickel the one driving the BMW in 10 years is the MIT grad.
If you need a break from math at MIT, “Introduction to Videogame Studies” might appeal to you.
“Students play and analyze videogames while reading current research and theory,” reads the course description, which says students are expected to beat the games too, “in consultation with the instructor.”
Annual tuition at MIT is almost $40,000, which works out to around $4,500 per class.
$4500 for a college course in video games? I should already have a doctorate in the subject, then!