Id: 042338 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

Students examine how video games reinforce or challenge conventional means of writing, reading, and meaning making. In addition to reading game studies scholarship, students will play a range of digital games and write about how these artifacts are more than just textual and visual narratives. Students will push beyond the narrative or filmic aspects of games to ask how the game's playability alters its interpretation, reception, and circulation. While the course engages scholarship on rhetoric and video games, much of the class content will focus on student writing. The course includes a rigorous reading schedule, as well as a hands-on, gameplay component.

Prerequisites

ENGL.1020 C W II, and ENGL.2000 Critical Methods of Literary Inquiry, or ENGL.2270 Essay Writing/English Majors, or ENGL.2290 Essay Writing, or ENGL.2380 Intro to Creative Writing, or ENGL.2390 Intro to Prof Writing, or Permission of Instructor.

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