Course requirement: Joystick in Hand: USC creates new degree for the study of video gaming.Students can now put their thumbs to good use. The University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission has, with the help of Electronic Arts (EA), created a new degree program in the School of Cinema-Television: interactive entertainment. Bing Gordon William "Bing" Gordon is Chief Creative Officer for video game maker Electronic Arts. William Gordon graduated from Cranbrook School in 1968. He then graduated from Yale University after studying drama and literature. , chief creative officer and co-founder of EA, the world's biggest video game publisher, was named faculty chair, a post he would assume for a one- to two-year period. The interactive entertainment track falls within the interactive media division of the School of Cinema-Television, and offers a three-year Master of Fine Arts Noun 1. Master of Fine Arts - a master's degree in fine arts MFA master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree degree program. But USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. is not alone in recognizing the impact of the gaming industry in recent years. Mt. Sierra College Sierra College, a California community college, has its main campus located in Rocklin, California. Rocklin is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, approximately twenty minutes from the state capital of Sacramento and 100 miles east of San Francisco. (Calif.) has also recently instituted a bachelor's degree program in Game Arts and Design. "It seems there are more colleges teaching something related to this field each year," said Dan Soine, director of public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for The Art Institute of California, San Francisco, which offers two bachelor's degree programs in Game Art & Design and Visual & Game Programming. There is good reason for the upward trend in the number of degree programs: Interactive media professionals can serve a variety of functions, according to Westwood College (Calif.). "The game and entertainment industry has seen a steady increase over the past six to seven years averaging 14 percent growth per year, and is expected to continue this strong growth for years to come," according to Westwood's website. Game designers have been able to take their skills beyond entertainment to find jobs designing other interactive software, military and health care simulations, and for television and education. |
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