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One would think that when sending your kids to a top university, you’re paying for the best education around. Take it from someone who took a class on James Bond in which we watched Bond movies in class at night and wrote one paper at USC, that this is not necessarily the case. But here’s more anecdotal proof…NYU’s offering a class on Guitar Hero, which is basically just kids playing Guitar Hero.

NYU undergrads coughing up $50,000 a year to attend the Greenwich Village institution can earn college credit for playing air guitar and kickboxing this fall.

Psychology prof Gary Marcus is offering a freshman seminar on video games and human cognition called “Guitar Heroes (and Heroines): Music, Video Games and the Nature of Human Cognition.”

“Video games are an understudied area,” said Marcus. “People dismiss them unfairly, but ‘Guitar Hero’ is a good tool for teaching and I’m interested in the nature of learning.”

“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.”

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