Poker University: A what if Scenario

What if there were a 4 year course in a major university where you could earn a degree as a poker player.

What classes would a student be proficient in, in order to even get into the course?

What Books would be required reading?

Forget about the teachers, but what would the course load look like? What about required auxillary classes?

Assume that Each student is willing to put forward 15 credt hours a semester for 4 years.

1st Year Limit basics
Poker 101: 2 credits Poker Basics; how to play, betting structures, rules, basic starting hands, and positional awareness, Bankroll management. Basic introduction to all limit games.
Poker 102: 3 credits Odds 1 full semester of studying the odds in different situations
Statistics Math: 5 credits
Poker Lab, 2 credits playing poker in a regulated environment with your peers, playing all limit games introduced in Poker 101.
Poker 103: 3 Poker History. A study of the great players, and what games started where.

First semester would deal with low limit games only, thus King Yao's Math of Hold 'em book, and Sklansky's SSH would be required reading. Perhaps Super System 1 for poker 103. Hoyles book of rules for the rules of each game.

I feel like I'm just coming out of poker 100 level learning

What about 200, 300 and 400 level learning? What year should you be learning NLHE? 2nd? what is required reading? What types of skills should a player be introduced to before moving onto the next hundred levels of classes?

Where would ISF theorem come along? Yeti Theorom? tournament poker introduced 3rd year? Would spendin' money like a Balla be 4th year reading?

you got waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much free time IMO

1st year they would learn how to exploit fish, 2nd year they would learn how to exploit the 1st years, 3rd year they would learn how to exploit the 2nd years, and 4th year they would be taught how to approach exploiting eachother

mebbe I should put this in the Beginners section? Could A mod move this pls?

What if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their asses on the ground. =)

And this wouldn't really be a poker degree as you described it, more like a hold'em degree =P

60 views and not one more person has anything to weigh in on?

Come on! What would you learn in your first year of poker college if you had to do it all over again in a structured format? 2nd year? 3rd year? Would most successful students be dropouts? This is a pretty good opportunity to help a beginner poker player look at where he's at, what he understands, and what to focus on before moving on to the "next year" so to speak.

Would you have to pick a major? You could break it down into cash games and tournies, and then even more into HU, 6max, FR, SnGs, or MTTs.

I can't really comment on the classes and what not, as I'd still be looking to buy a elevator pass from someone at this point.

Why don't you open one? If the classes are good, you could charge a boat load of money to get in. And it'd be the best college ever.

fantastic idea

The odd thing is, in 4 yrs, the game will probably be much different. Do you think the highest stakes games played anything like they do today 4 years ago?