Where games are homework.Three decades after bursting into arcades and living rooms, video games See video game console. are taking their place in college and university classrooms. A small but growing group of schools, from 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 to the University of Central. Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and , have started formal programs in game design and the academic study of video games as contemporary culture. Detractors in the educational, and video-game fields say it's just an attempt by colleges to cash in on a fad. But others believe that video games will be one of the dominant media of the 21st century. This fall, Parsons The New School for Design Parsons has approximately 3,100 undergraduates and more than 400 graduate students enrolled. The School also offers continuing education courses and certificate programs, as well as weekend and summer pre-college programs for high school students. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of started an undergraduate program in game design. Bob Kerrey, president of The New School, says graduates of the program could wind up working on Watt Street as well as for videogame companies. "To me," says Kerrey, "there is no significant difference ... between people who are making games and people who are manipulating huge database systems to try to figure out where the [stock] market is going." |
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