PLAY STUDIES

Catalog description

Introduces students to play as an expressive form that extends across many mediums of cultural expression and communication. Students study, experience, and design playful performance and interactive experiments. Explores play as a force for creativity and as a changing concept in historical and contemporary terms from the perspectives of producers, consumers, and institutions. Exposes students to the study of play across multiple disciplines, including leisure studies, game studies, performance studies, psychology, sociology, etc.