Game Studies

Catalog description

This course looks at key scholarship on games and introduces students to canonical critical writing about games. Looking at diverse topics such as formal and informal rules, abstract game design principles of challenge and expectation, identity related questions of inclusion and audience, and roles of game communities and cultures, students are invited to take part in the academic discourse around game design and game play and interrogate the definition, meaning, and function of games. The class consists of reading key articles and chapters by noted game theorists and critics and assignments in which students pursue their own arguments about games.