HISTORY AND VIDEO GAMES

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This course will explore the way that video games represent and recreate historical events, people, and settings. Students will examine the decisions game designers make in portraying history, how historical processes shape the production of video games, how historical study can enrich our enjoyment of video games, and how these games can help us understand the relationship between storytelling and historical study. This is a project-based course in which students will research and design their own historical games.