from http://ocw.mit.edu
If you didn't already know, MIT offers all of their courses online free of charge. I've attemped a few Comp Sci courses but to be honest the benifits were mostly entertainment and novelty, but here is a course I can get into: "Videogame Theory and Analysis" Here's the link:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Comparative-Media-Studies/CMS-998Fall-2006/CourseHome/index.htm
From MIT's website:
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of commercial videogames as texts, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. Students play and analyze videogames while examining debates surrounding how games function within socially situated contexts. Readings include contemporary game theory (Gee, Squire, Steinkuehler, Jenkins, Klopfer, Zimmerman and Salen, Juul, Bartle, Taylor, Aarseth) and the completion of a contemporary commercial videogame chosen in consultation with the instructor.
(this site came to me courtesy of my very dear friend Jia Zang)
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