The life of studying Xi is boring and difficult, especially for international students, it is not easy to complete the Xi in an unfamiliar language in an unfamiliar country. But what if the final exam is for you to play games? Carnegie Mellon University in the United States launched a course called Genshin Impact: Team Building in the fall semester of 2023, which translates to Genshin Impact Team.
The course content is not simply playing Genshin Impact, but guiding students to build a battle team in the Genshin Impact game, and defeat the target boss by reasonably planning the skills of different characters in the team. To sign up, you need to have Genshin Impact game experience and a minimum level of 16.
Source: CMU official website.
In the midterm exam of this class, students are required to defeat the boss using a character of their choice within two minutes; In the final exam, you will randomly select characters to team up and defeat the boss in two minutes. Classes are taken once a week and students will be awarded three credits upon completion.
In addition to playing games, this course also involves the understanding of the game's combat mechanics and numerical calculations, and it also has a certain degree of examination of everyone's operational ability.
For example, the picture below is the game team shared by Kamei's students, in which there is a clear division for the characteristics of each character and the division of labor in the team, and there is also a full explanation of the logic and matching highlights of the team, which can be seen to be the conclusion reached after full thinking and "actual combat testing".
Team up for Genshin Impact shared by Carme's students.
Actually, this is not the first time that Kamei has offered an elective course on Genshin Impact. In the past two years, Kamei has opened three courses related to Genshin Impact, one is introductory, one focuses on game combat teaming, and one is the latest course - "Theory Production 101".
In a class schedule for 2024 that has been circulated, you can see the new course "Genshin Impact - TheoryCrafting 101".
Source: CMU official website.
Carnegie Mellon University, as one of the world's top CS universities, must have a reason to offer this course! As a representative of high salary and high employment rate, the CS (Computer Science) major has always been a popular application for studying abroads.News ranked No. 1 in the best TOP100 occupations, the best STEM occupations, and the best technical occupations.
In the latest CS rankings, Carnegie Mellon University, the "school of computer science", has been ranked first for 11 consecutive years, which shows its strong computer science strength!
Source: CS Rankings official website.
CMU has the largest computer science school in the United States. For the average American university, computer science is only set up as a department, however, CMU is very sincere about the construction of CS and directly opened it as a school - School of Computer Science. The research direction is quite comprehensive, the research level is also quite high, you can think of computer research, branches it basically has, and there are many unheard of, very cutting-edge research directions, especially the software engineering project is known as the crown jewel, so this project is also very difficult to apply.
CMU now has two campuses, the main campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one campus in Silicon Valley. There are no special highlights in the location of the main campus, and the geographical location of Silicon Valley is relatively unique, with all the top companies having everything, Apple, Google, Facebook, all of which are several kilometers away from each other, and Xi and employment are guaranteed.
In conclusion, if you want to apply for a computer science major, then Carnegie Mellon University can be said to represent the top level in the world!
However, because in recent years, more and more people are applying to Carnegie Mellon University to major computer science, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce, not only excellent academic results, language scores, but also scientific research experience is crucial.
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