NYU Gives Their Students A Guitar Hero Course

Beginning this fall NYU will offer a College Guitar Hero Course!

The Course is Titled:

Guitar Heroes (and Heroines): Music, Video Games and the Nature of Human Cognition

This actually sounds like it would be pretty interesting, besides getting to play Guitar Hero for College Credit.

Ahh..  It reminds me of my college bowling class. Except I wasn’t paying $50, 000 a year to play like these NYU students are!

“Video games are an understudied area,” said Marcus, a psychology professor.  ”People dismiss them unfairly, but ‘Guitar Hero’ is a good tool for teaching and I’m interested in the nature of learning.”

This course will cover the topic of video games and human cognition.

It seems that some parents are a bit worked up about the new Guitar Hero class being offered.

“I just wrote a big check here,” fumed Glen Jackson, whose son, Jeff, is an incoming freshman at NYU. “I’m not paying for him to study video games. It seems a bit watered down.”

[Via NBC]