College Professor Requires Students to Study Portal
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I might be off the escapist for a few weeks. It appears I am now moving to Indiana to seek new institutions of higher learning.
Liberal Arts sounds awesome. As a CS major, I spend my time doing complex math courses, producing logic proofs and suddenly noting that my major has an (un)surprising lack of female participants.
Presumably not. Games are not a cultivate academic skill. I assume the course is based around the discussion of the themes present in the game, directly present or otherwise, which could be found without finishing. If that isn't enough, study groups do exist for a reason.internetzealot1 said:
Wabash College just doubled the number of student applications that it will get this year.
On topic, I hope this opens up a new realm for education wherein videogames with significant literary and conceptual merit can nestle themselves snugly in everyday curriculum alongside Shakespeare and William Faulkner.
Please note: I said CERTAIN games. I do not expect schools to have a unit on Mario Party.
On topic, I hope this opens up a new realm for education wherein videogames with significant literary and conceptual merit can nestle themselves snugly in everyday curriculum alongside Shakespeare and William Faulkner.
Please note: I said CERTAIN games. I do not expect schools to have a unit on Mario Party.
I wouldn't overthink it, the teacher guy is being a tad too pretentious here and stretching what was a very good breaking-the-fourth-wall conceptual idea, challenging conceptions of the puzzle genre, to a philosophical point it was never intended to make.MrPop said:
Still, the thing to take from this news is that someone is finally understanding the cultural relevance of the gaming medium. While the way in which the lecturer has interpreted Portal is going too far in my opinion, still I think he was right to include the game in his lectures. Its a fine example of how conventional storytelling can be challenged, and I wish it had been included in my Scriptwriting course.
Also...
...how quaint!Tom Goldman said:
Portal has this awesome thing called "Save" and "Load" it also has the possibility to start at whichever level you want to start at.LordCuthberton said: