Get our email updates

Stay up-to-date on the companies, people and issues that impact businesses in Syracuse, Central New York and beyond.

Advertisement
Advertisement

Syracuse University launching esports degree program

Syracuse University (SU) will require all eligible students, faculty, and staff who “routinely” use any campus location or facility to get a booster shot prior to the start of the spring semester, or as soon as they become eligible. (Eric Reinhardt / CNYBJ)

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics will jointly offer the program called esports communications and management.

It will include three tracks.  Esports business and management will cover such topics as sport promotion, sport-venue management and finance for emerging enterprises.

Esports communications will include coursework in virtual-reality storytelling; esports and advertising; public-relations principles; and sports in the metaverse.

(Sponsored)

In addition, esports media and design covers 3D animation, game experience design, and virtual production.

SU will begin enrolling students to the program in fall 2024. It is currently searching for an executive director of esports.

“This new academic offering is particularly exciting because it leverages the University’s key areas of strength, distinction and excellence to embrace an emerging, fast-growing field and provide our students with the tools to enter that field,” Gretchen Ritter, vice chancellor, provost, and chief academic officer, said in a news release. “Investment in our sport-related academic disciplines will be one of the keys to our success moving forward.”

 

Post
Share
Tweet
Print
Email

Get our email updates

Stay up-to-date on the companies, people and issues that impact businesses in Syracuse, Central New York and beyond.