Alex Galloway, creator of Carnivore PE, founding member of RSG, and author of Protocol is teaching a graduate seminar in Game Studies at NYU's Media Ecology department. The class looks at the medium of games "using methods from literary criticism, cultural anthropology, poststructuralism, and cinema studies" and students are required to play and beat Civilization III. Sounds pretty rigorous to me. Check the syllabus.

Via Brendan, who is currently taking the class.