Yes that day has finally come. A video game is now part of a course curriculum at an accredited college, Wabash College, in Indiana. College freshman are now required to ‘read and play’ Portal as part of a class requirement for all incoming freshman students. Professor Michael Abbott, the glorified teacher at Wabash College had pushed to have Portal as a requirement for his ‘Enduring Questions” seminar which “acclimates them to objectify critical readings and discussions in a college environment.”

Being used specifically as an addendum to Erving Goffman’s ‘Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,’ a college students’ and video gamers’ dreams have finally become a reality in our current year of 2010. Oh how long have us gamers have waited to have a video game [and in this case one of the best games of the year] to actually be part of a course curriculum. Although Professor Abbott was thinking about using ‘BioShock’ instead as the required reading for the course, Portal really seemed to hit the spot due to its uniqueness and extraordinary gameplay that has never been seen before. For those of you that haven’t seen or played Portal, you MUST check this video out:

Source: Switched