HOUSTON -- In life, every move counts.

And now colleges are teaching students how to play the game.

“It’s real difficult to figure out what you should do versus what you want to do,” student Thuy Nguyen said.

The University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business is offering a course that teaches students how to make decisions.

What’s strange about the class is it teaches the stuff you’d expect kids to learn at home -- things like how to dress and how to introduce themselves.

“That’s just the preparation for real life. Where you have to make decisions on the go. Where you don’t have time to call mom and ask mom what I should do,” student Paula Bozic said.

The class was first offered last spring as an elective, but after strong feedback from employers, the college decided to make it a graduation requirement.

So now, anyone who gets a business degree from U of H has to take the course.

“It really is the basics that you need for survival in the world. You need to make a decision when you don’t have a lot of information, live with the consequences, deal with the people that you work with without a lot of instruction,” Jamie Belinne, Assistant Dean of the Bauer College, said.

They say it’s all about common sense decision making – a crash course on the game of life.