Apparently, New York University is turning into the School of Rock, and this semester, you are expected to ace your "Guitar Hero" class.
NYU students, who shell out $50,000 a year for their first rate education, can (really) enroll in Professor Gary Marcus' is class "Guitar Heroes (and Heroines): Music, Video Games and the Nature of Human Cognition," the New York Post reports.
"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."
The course will tackle the finer points of video games and human cognition and it already has a waiting list.
Not a video game fan? There's also "The Poetics of Television" and a see-and-do class called "Can Exercise Change Your Brain?"
The premise? Students attend an hour-long high-impact aerobics class every session. The sweaty students then sit through a lecture on how exercise enhances cognitive performance.
Some parents aren't buying it.
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"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."