Rice University offering a course on Skyrim

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Rice University offering a course on Skyrim

Added: 04.12.2014 3:11 | 8 views | 0 comments

Professor Donna Ellard is offering a course in Skyrim to her students at Rice University. It isnt a development or game design class, either. Scandinavian Fantasy Worlds: Old Norse Sagas and Skyrim, which first hit the course catalogue in 2012, is interdisciplinary but leans towards the humanitiesstudents play the game, of course, but they also read Norse mythology and Freudian psychoanalysis to try and determine why Skyrim holds such appeal for American audiences.