Press Release Summary = Parents are worried about too much time on the xbox or psp? Plenty of high school graduates enter college to get their parents off their back. A degree in Leisure Studies found many students sleeping halfway through the lecture, and gave others the ability to tell their families they were on their way to a college degree.
Press Release Body = Colleges jump on Gaming Bandwagon
Plenty of high school graduates enter college to get their parents off their back. A degree in Leisure Studies found many students sleeping halfway through the lecture, and gave others the ability to tell their families they were on their way to a college degree.
Nowadays, colleges all over the country are offering classes that teach students about gaming. Now, most students would probably think, "Cool, I get to play video games all day!" What these courses offer are much more than a forum to play games and eat potato chips all day. College campuses all over the country are now offering classes that teach students not only the history of the gaming world itself, but also how to design, implement, and create video games through a variety of mediums.
Some colleges offer gaming degrees similar to those degrees handed out to a graphic designer. There are many aspects of gaming that most people don\'t know about such as the design of character movements, graphics that give the characters life, and other details such as sound and music. All of these attributes require programmers to actually create real body movements, sounds, and expressions. Students enrolled in the gaming courses learn to manipulate objects, build models, employ lighting effects and design movement; all planned through careful story boarding and cinematic techniques.
Certain colleges offer fourteen-week programs to learn how to actually write programs for video games. Most students do not get to play them though. Sometimes students take classes in computer graphics because of their interest in the subject matter, but the teachers sometimes do not emphasize the video-game aspect of teaching. They do emphasize the technology and underlying foundation of writing the games.
So to those students thinking they can get away with another easy "A" in college by taking a course on gaming, be weary. These courses are meant to give the student a strong foundation to build upon. After all, when class is over you can always go home and play with your own games right?
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