#  Time for Homework: Where's My Nintendo Switch? 

 





March 14, 2023

 

 

 Willa Fogelson grabs her Nintendo Switch most Monday nights, dims the lights, and plays a video game for a few hours. The first-year from Los Angeles has always loved playing and gets to explore a new title each week.

 The best part? It’s her homework.

 Fogelson is taking an English class being offered for the first time this semester, “English 189v.g: Video Game Storytelling.” About 100 students signed up, a level of interest that surprised the professor, Vidyan Ravinthiran, a poet and author. In hindsight, perhaps it shouldn’t have.

 “There are just loads and loads of people playing. It is a really big part of our culture,” Ravinthiran said. “There’s this real excitement about the subject matter. And you can really see that when \[students\] start discussing it.”  
  
Read more from *The Harvard Gazette* [here](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/new-english-class-focuses-on-video-game-narratives/).



 

 

 



 

 

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