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GMU “Overwhelmed” by Interest in Game Design BFA

By Garrison | Published: April 30, 2010
Via Game­Pol­i­tics, news that the new-ish Game Design BFA offered at GMU has met with“over­whelm­ing” stu­dent response. A story in the Fair­fax Times reports that the school has already enrolled around 200 stu­dents into the pro­gram, best­ing an inter­nal goal of hav­ing 110 stu­dents in the pro­gram by 2012. As Scott M. Mar­tin, Assis­tant Dean [...]
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On The Turtlenecked Hairshirt

By Garrison | Published: January 10, 2010
Pro­fes­sor Bogost, at the Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, con­tin­ues to be one of my favorite con­tem­po­rary thinkers on mat­ters dig­i­tal. Fol­low­ing close on the end of MLA 09, he has weighed in on recent rumi­na­tions about the direc­tion of the human­i­ties with a brief, sim­mer­ing note. He writes: Human­ists work hard, but at all the [...]
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