Rhetorics of Gaming: Introduction to Video Game Analysis

Catalog description

An introduction to video game analysis, this course offers critical ways to understand games as complex narrative and cultural texts. The course explores theories of play, the history of gaming industries and game studies as an academic field, and a variety of analytical lenses through which to study this influential cultural form. Emphasizes playing, researching, and writing about video games and gaming culture in theoretically, rhetorically, and methodologically sound ways.