[game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

[Roberts, Scott]

Mark, you left out an important element from what is ordinarily required to attain a tenure-track position in an area: a terminal degree.  This is one of the problems we're facing as this educational area grows, a shortage of PhD or MFA programs that focus on game production/design.  While at DePaul we do have working game designers teaching game design, eventually we'll need tenure-track faculty in the area.

It appears natural that a terminal degree in game design would be an MFA rather than a PhD.  Is anyone offering an MFA program in game design?  Would this degree serve much of a purpose other than qualifying someone for tenure consideration?


Regarding your question, I think the second best solution is an experienced teacher with an intense interest in the subject of games and game design, which I think is what Susan was saying.

Scott

Scott Roberts (MFA)
Associate Professor
DePaul University
sroberts at cti.depaul.edu<mailto:sroberts at cti.depaul.edu>


From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Mark Baldwin
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:35 PM
To: 'IGDA Game Education Listserv'
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

I've been thinking about the question of who is qualified to teach game design.   The most obvious answer as one might find in any of the fine arts is someone who actually is successful and published in the field.   Certainly, in many schools if you want to teach literature, you have to be a published writer, or if you want to teach painting, you have to have exhibitioned  your work successfully.

In a like way, I think if you want to teach game design, you must also be a published game designer, preferably multiple times.   Certainly, if I was a student, I would be looking for that in my instructors.

However, there are not many of us out there.   So I've been asking myself, what is the second best solution?

And what I keep coming up with are two fields.   The first is TV and Film, and the second is Literature.   Certainly, I cannot imagine how computer science or graphic art would qualify an individual to teach game design.

What other fields might put someone close to be able to teach game design?

Cheers,
Mark

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