Study Skyrim at Rice University
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considering that it is a 3 credit hour course, and the school charges $1,455.00/credit hour for an undergraduate degree class it will be about $4365.00 for the 1 class, and where it is a 300 level class I would presume that it has some interesting pre-reqs.Evil Smurf said:
Will "an xbox, Playstation, or PC meeting minimum specks" be a required tool? Does playing through all the set quests and the story (barring the infinite randomly generated ones) counts as cheating? Could I level grind to an instant A?
As an Icelandic student who has to read the Sagas anyway I really found it funny when a quest at the Bards College has you finding the Poetic Edda (Ljóða Eddan in Icelandic) which is an actual book that I had to read. At the time I wondered if this could be tought to other people with the context of Skyrim and as this shows I wasn't the only one who thought that.
Well two of my roommates are taking a class on Tolkien, part of their homework is to read the books and they have to watch the movies as a class. I guess stuff like this is more common than I thought
Yes, a precedent!
English isn't just dusty old books, we've studied action films, comics, experimental poetry/digital designs, etc. If we want to study literature, we should be keeping up with it in the modern day too, that includes interactive story telling.
My goal in university is to -hopefully- study video games as a type of 'literature' through my English department. Really, video games give us a new way or presenting an engaging with themes that already exist in traditions of literature. I think the whole 'video games are art' debate misses the point. Video games (some better than others) convey meaning, like with any text/film/play/etc they can be enjoyed on a basic fun level while offering more if we delve further into them.
English isn't just dusty old books, we've studied action films, comics, experimental poetry/digital designs, etc. If we want to study literature, we should be keeping up with it in the modern day too, that includes interactive story telling.
The actual content of your degree isn't what counts, but rather the degree itself, and the grades you received. Courses are more for whatever you want to learn about, have a passion and interest for, and whatever you're willing to spend your money on. As long as you've completed any required courses for your degree, the rest you choose don't matter at all, but are there for interest and points.Legion said:
This reminds me of that Portal course at another university. I'm liking this new trend.
Jeffers thanks goodness you're here. We absolutely needed some pretentious, rational, intelligent, crusading, kind-hearted fellow to piss on everyone's parade today.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
Well, games are a medium like any other, it makes sense they'd be part of the curriculum of courses eventually. Didn't think it'd be in a non video game class quiet so quickly though. (Course, I personally made my art anthropology class about video games for two sessions but that's a special case!)
In response to your first paragraph. That was my entire point. If you are getting a degree that doesn't have anything to do with what you want/need, then there is no point doing it, it is a waste of money.Exterminas said:
If you are the kind of person who can get a decent job without a relevant degree, then you may as well save yourself the money and spend it elsewhere.
As for your second paragraph, I do not recall in any shape or form suggesting that art degrees were worthless or that non-scientific jobs were bad, so I don't really have anything else to say.
Again. That is my entire point. If you get a degree and the employer doesn't care about it, then it's a waste of money and time. If they care more about your experience and your work ethic then it makes more sense to save your money and invest elsewhere, as opposed to getting a degree that isn't going to help you.Sonic Doctor said:
I guess that depends on the person, really. All the people my age who got degrees are pretty much the same as they were before. They didn't even really have any new experiences seeing as they all stayed at home and travelled to and from university. It was pretty much "school, but more advanced."Vault101 said:
Then again, that's not how you are "supposed" to do it.
Personally if I wanted to broaden my mind I'd spend that £30,000+ costs on travelling the world.
you seem to have a very narrow veiw of thingsLegion said:
I'm not saying everyone should go out and get degress OR you should get one for the sake of getting one, OR get any old degree and expect to get a job
but knowlege is a wonderful thing and is not "worthless" in of itself.....
Yeah, it all depends. They probably would have changed at least a little if they had lived away from home.Legion said:
For a person like me who has social anxiety disorder, it brought me out of my shell. I did things alone/by-myself because I had to. Now, living back at home, I've found that living away from home brought the active side of me out. Now that I'm back I'm barely active, other than going out with friends on Saturday nights and Sundays, on most weekends.
There are also little experiences that can be found from going to college, even if it cost a lot of money/put me in debt, I find I'd probably be a much different person if I hadn't gone.
I wouldn't have found my love of playing poker. As such I wouldn't have found I'm pretty good at it if I keep my head cool/calm. I wouldn't have been able to be a member of my first university's first poker club(actually university funded, with tournaments and prizes). There was actually a semester leader-board and the top 40 players from a semester would compete in a semester end tournament that would have bigger prizes than the previous tournaments during the year. Since it was a university funded club, it was free to enter the regular season games, and of course you had to be the best to get to the final game.
I ended up winning a good bit in my time at that place before I transferred to a four year school:
A poker hat, a 25 dollar Wal-Mart card, fifty dollars in snack food, a DVD player, and Sony PSP(got second in one of the semester end tournaments to get the PSP).
We also had a little cash game poker ring in the downstairs basement of my dorm hall. I was usually doing that most nights. One night I bought in for 10 dollars and walked away with everybody's money, 150 dollars total. The nightly cash games usually lasted about five hours 7pm to midnight.
One the academic side, my writing would be far worse than it is now, if I hadn't taken all the writing and creative writing classes, required and elective.
There was many many more experiences that I had while in college, but it would take to long to post the rest here. So, college is expensive, but it can be rewarding on more levels than just maybe helping get a job/career.
