🐱 More College's Are Adding Competitive Gaming As A Major

More College's Are Adding Competitive Gaming As A Major

The major will be offered online and on campus following its fall semester launch... which is perfect since the kids won't want to leave their dank basement.

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The yell from the basement, rings out: “Shut up, mom… I’m trying to get a scholarship.”
Incels unite.
The University of North Dakota says it will be the first in the state’s postsecondary schools to offer a bachelor’s degree in competitive gaming.
Oh, hell yes. I’d not just good at CoD, I’m in training?

North Dakota’s State Board of Higher Education recently approved the Bachelor of Science degree in esports at UND. The university has been developing esports for a couple years, including establishing varsity level competition in which students compete against their peers across multiple game titles… which is a pretty wild sentence, but coolcoolcool.

The school also introduced an esports coaching minor in the fall of 2020… which means gamers also need coaches? Is that the same line of “if you can’t do, teach” … cuz, like… if you are the same age, why is one of yall coaching? Is that the best player? Why isnt he playing?

Both the esports major and minor are offered in College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Kinesiology. UND says the new program has a core focus in sport performance, but is ultimately interdisciplinary between kinesiology, public health, sport business, computer science and communication, KVLY-TV reported.

“Esports is a booming industry,” said Sandra Moritz, program director and professor of kinesiology and public health education. “Competitive gaming is something that is here to stay, and there are many career areas in the field – everything from playing to coaching to broadcasting. Our program is drawing from a variety of departments to create an all-inclusive approach for this degree.”

The major will be offered online and on campus following its fall semester launch… which is perfect since the kids won’t want to leave their dank basement.

 

[Operaghost]

This course is the equivalent of those pop culture majors that have been implemented in these colleges over the last 10 years. If you want to make money off of doing this shit just do YouTube or Twitch. I don't understand why anyone would waste their time with this.

 

[Samir]

Were degrees in English or ethnic studies too useful?

 

[Fellen]

Colleges don't care anymore, as long as they make their money, they'll keep making ridiculous majors.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

At least sports and games like chess have official rules that rarely change. Video games have a finite lifespan and each new flavor of the month competitive game has its own unique sets of rules. You're probably not going to the big leagues playing CSGO like it's Call of Duty. Someone who is really good at Tetris probably won't excel at Puyo Puyo first try.

 

[WonderWino]

They did it. They actually did it. a king of the hill parody episode has become real:

Skip to 30 seconds in

Do they call this the active electronic lifestyle option by any chance?

and I think they got the end result down pretty accurately as well:

 

[Tracer's Butt]

Both the esports major and minor are offered in College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Kinesiology. UND says the new program has a core focus in sport performance, but is ultimately interdisciplinary between kinesiology, public health, sport business, computer science and communication, KVLY-TV reported.

Why is the Department of Kinesiology (The study of the anatomy, physiology, and mechanics of body movement, especially in humans source: Wordnik) in charge of a "sport" where there is little movement involved?

It seems like the current administration of most colleges are pulling down the prestige of education (but it's happening since the Soviet sycophants has been infiltrating education since the Cold War).

Also, how is computer science involved in this major? Are they going to code? I could see this major being a part of digital media studies (which is more humanities-based), but not computer science... I can't see how teaching data structures and algorithms is relevant to eSports unless you're working on the game logic or the network servers.

I could see this major as more as a cash grab for Gen Z since they're more likely to watch Twitch streams and gaming. Also, I see this as a way for lazy administrators and useless professors to keep their jobs.

 

[Duck Duck *Honk*]

"Everything woke turns to shit." - Donald J Trump

 

[AMERICA]

imagine having to tell people you majored in competitive gaming for the rest of your life. lmfao

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Oshit I just remembered.

A few years ago, there was a web novel, The King's Avatar. I think it got big and spawned comic, cartoon, and live action.

It was a Chinese story about an old eSports expert. He was described as being slow, but he still pwned everyone anyways by being a retired pro on the n00b servers and using his superior accuracy. Also used his superior knowledge to find and poach promising n00bs by correcting their worst weaknesses.

I should have focused on the slow thing, as it was pointed out earlier in the thread, but then I noticed the Chinese thing.

Which got me thinking. Yes, I'm sure the college would accept local students into the major, they still get paid after all. But what if the target demographic isn't American basement dwellers?

What if the target demographic is international students who pay international tuition and are not necessarily here to learn? What if they're targeting the Golden geese that just need a rubber stamped pass to enter and reside in the US? The school isn't doing the students a disservice by giving them student loan debts and a useless degree, they're giving the students exactly what they want.

Anyone remember the fake universities they used a few years ago to catch fake students engaging in immigration fraud? People tried to frame it like the students were the victims being scammed with fake classes and further punished by deportation even though anyone smart enough to get into college should question why they haven't had and coursework yet.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

South Korea's national sport may as well be anything Blizzard makes.

 

[Pope Julius IV]

College esport teams are total dogshit anyway. My brother joined his college’s csgo team with high school friends as a joke, and the final tournament was canceled because they caused every other team to quit by routinely 16-0ing them.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

College esport teams are total dogshit anyway. My brother joined his college’s csgo team with high school friends as a joke, and the final tournament was canceled because they caused every other team to quit by routinely 16-0ing them.

The correct response to losing that spectacularly should be a blunt "git gud".

 

[Wesley Willis]

Why would you acquire debt and waste your time in a classroom instead of attempting competitive gaming for money?

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Is this article telling me that in the time since Gary Larson did his "Optimistic Parents" cartoon and now, some university is actually trying to make it a reality?
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to be fair, for the chunk of kids who were gamers and became programmers because of it, that semi-came true. instead of deciding to "learn to code" now after you can't find work as a waiter during covid the nerds that learned C++ 30 years ago are flying high today. how many people do you know make a living being a pro-sportsball guy? DSP makes more money sucking at gaming than he ever would being good at basketball.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Love the grammatical error in the title, definitely inspires confidence

It at least made me laugh, as one could interpret it as a natural consequence of the phenomenon the article was written about.