Colleges Offering Video Game Studies

[Champ]

TROY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Playing video games is no longer just a pastime of young boys. Now it's also homework for American college students.


Thanks to the growing place of games in mainstream entertainment, universities across the nation are now offering classes in video game design, hoping to teach students skills for a career in a business that now generates roughly as much revenue as Hollywood's domestic box office receipts.


This fall, students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York -- internationally known for its mathematicians and engineering programs -- can minor in video game studies, said Kathleen Ruiz, co-director of the new program.


"Games are an important part of culture and are here to stay," said Ruiz, a digital artist who teaches a class where students play and design video games. Ruiz created a nonviolent game called "Bang, Bang (You're Not Dead?)."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20040512/tc_nm/leisure_videogames_dc

[cheezus]

1. now all they need is weed smokin' studies, and I'll go back to school

maybe throw in some hot coeds studies

[Champ]

2. Hahaha

[BurnInHellFoxNews]

3. I majored in promiscuity

with a minor in substance experimentation.