I love using Niche culture to explore learning opportunities. Nothing entertains me more than the class I took last year of American History through Superheroes. We read comics. it was awesome

So does this mean I can get an instant A for my excellent rendition of TTFATF?

While I do support games receiving support in academia, I have to wonder if the parents who paid eleventy-zillion dollars for their kids to go to NYU are happy with the idea that they're going to college and playing Guitar Hero. If I paid that much for my education I would have demanded professors wearing mortarboards constantly teaching me all of the stuff I was never going to learn outside of college. Like, "Okay I have five minutes between history and lit, give me some semiotics right now."

If it was something more like "Video Games and the Orwellian Dystopia; Final Fantasy VII", I would be on that like icing on a cupcake, but this seems like it might be a tad simplistic to me. Of course, without taking the class I'm just guessing.

That kid is rocking the hell out of that Les Paul! XD

Guitar Hero class? How utterly worthless. Such is the state of our universities.

and now we know what some of those kids wasted money is going towards.

Ok, let me shed some light on this ( I just moved into my dorm at NYU). This class is a freshman seminar and is on a list of other freshman seminars. They can only be taken the fall semester of freshman year and have fairly small class sizes because the professor is usually teaching the class for fun. The professors tend to be retired individuals who just teach these classes after accomplishing all their goals (rich, notoriety).

Being a gamer, I also wanted to take this seminar, but it filled up way before I learned about the class. There is no actual guitar playing, its more of a tag line to get people interested (or get gaming blogs to care). Its more of a psychology class. It really is just an interesting class for gamers and psychology majors.

If you think that this class is a waste, note that it is obviously not mandatory at all. Also, there are honors seminars which tend to be more curriculum oriented. For the record, seminars tend to be more rigorous then the required classes for the GEN ED program.

I make that face when I hit the "Sweet Child O' Mine" solo too. Rock on, little man!

Now if only the University of Redlands had a Bit Trip class.

Wow, I wish I was a spoiled little rich kid who could toss thousands of dollars around to pretend I'm going to college by taking a Guitar Hero class. Someone get some weed killer for these so-called "elite U.S. colleges."

Someone needs to sign that kid. He looks to be a legend in the making.

What Alupiniii said. You want to know how we can improve online communities? Read the fucking post, numbnuts.

Kraid: That looks more like an SG than a Les Paul

What I really need is a course on how to pull off that wicked face.