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Portal Required Reading At Best College Ever!

by Ben Reeves on Aug 25, 2010 at 03:20 PM

Wabash College recently announced that it would be adding Valves popular puzzle game Portal to it’s syllabus of required “reading” materials, a list that includes famous works such as Gilgamesh, Aristotle's Politics, John Donne's poetry, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching.

The following is a description of the class:

Enduring Questions is a required freshman seminar offered during the spring semester. It is devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives and fostering a sense of community. Each section of the course includes a small group (approximately 15) of students who consider together classic and contemporary works from multiple disciplines. In so doing, students confront what it means to be human and how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and our world.

The daily activity of the course most often involves discussion, and students complete multiple writing assignments for the course. As such, assessment of student performance emphasizes written and oral expression of ideas.

Students may not withdraw from the course. All students must pass the course to graduate from Wabash.

Portal sounds like a great choice for this class to us. We tried playing GameBoy during our college classes, and as a result we got a D-; looks like we were just born in the wrong era. To read more about how Portal got chosen check out TheBrainyGamer.

If you were to pick a list of games that were “required reading” what would they be?