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unmortal_mind · Boot Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 58 Location: Washington DC

ARGs and Academic Programs?

**Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:13 pm

imbri

There are quite a few - and more all of the time. I went to Georgia Tech for grad school - at the time it was Information Design & Technology, but has been renamed Digital Media. I discovered it mostly by finding out that several people who had written books or papers that I enjoyed were teaching there. Off the top of my head, I can think of a handful of schools of other schools that have good programs at the graduate level based on friends experiences (MIT, CMU, USC). I'm sure that by the time I click submit on this post, I'll think of a number of others (even more if I consider Europe). I'm not sure how their undergrad programs are (I did my undergrad years ago in a completely unrelated field), but I have friends that went to CMU and MIT and did some amazing things.

So, yeah, there are programs ranging from undergrad to grad to post grad.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:53 am

teufelsdrochk · Veteran Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 71

Re: ARGs and Academic Programs?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:04 pm

Wittgenstein

Don't forget about relevant work being done at SUNY Buffalo's Department of Media Study. (shameless self-plug?) Embarassed

**Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:44 pm

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University of Texas at Dallas: Emerging Media and Communications

Dr. Adam Brackin, who produced the Deus City ARG, is a professor there and has even run an "ARG Lab" in the past couple of years. I'm not sure if that's happening this year, but it looks like a fun and exciting program.

I'm starting my graduate work at University of Houston-Clear Lake in their Digital Media Studies program. It's more geared toward advertising and/or video games, but it's got some very good courses and excellent professors.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:22 pm

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remotedevice

The USC School of Cinematic Arts has an experimental new media PhD program called Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (http://imap.usc.edu), which kind of straddles storytelling and interactive media/game design. I'm working on an ARG dissertation there. The faculty is insanely awesome. Also, the program is so new that no one has completed it yet (it's 3 years old), so there's plenty of room for shaping things to your interests.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:05 am

notgordian

remotedevice: were you in Henry Jenkins' Transmedia Storytelling class this semester? Based on the syllabus, I was extremely impressed with the list of practitioners and academics involved in the ARG space Jenkins brought in to speak.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:34 am

Guest · Guest

@notgordian Jenkins also taught a doctoral-level class, which I took instead. But yeah, his access to and knowledge of ARG people is pretty impressive. Overall, we're really lucky to have him here.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:42 pm

remotedevice

[yeah -- forgot to log in: Guest reply to @notgordian was me - JW]

**Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:43 pm