Game Studies

Catalog description

This course seminar gives students a grounded understanding of game criticism, game mechanics and design, and the game industry. By reading and discussing texts from many of the formative debates and topics in the field of game studies, students are equipped with concepts and methodological approaches that help them to understand games as affectively productive media technologies embedded within concrete historical, cultural, and institutional contexts. We will discuss topics including games and embodiment, race, gender, empire, the military, economics, and addiction.