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• Position: Universities offer video games undergraduate programs - Brief article

Three decades after bursting into arcades and living rooms, video games are taking their place in college and university classrooms.

A small but growing group of schools, from the University of Southern California to the University of Central. Florida, 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...