How Games Change US
How Games Change Us examines player experience through phenomenological, feminist, queer, disability, ecocritical, and media-archaeological lenses.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.89 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Devise, plan, and begin a research project in game studies.
Articulate the disciplinary tenets and controversies of game studies and position your work in relation to other game scholars.
Use strategic and purposeful reading methods to approach dense theoretical texts.
Make clear and theoretically informed arguments about how a player is changed in the process of playing a game.
Describe some of the common ways game designers have used the transformative potential of games and other design choices that have not been explored.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Spring 2027No instructors recorded for this selection.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.89 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
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Topics
- Player experience, embodiment, and self-transformation
- Methodological perspectives in game studies
- Game design and transformative potential
Skills
- Strategic and purposeful reading of dense theoretical texts
- Making theoretically informed arguments about player transformation
- Articulating disciplinary tenets and positioning work among scholars
- Devising and planning a research project in game studies
Grades
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Explore recorded gradesRecorded 2026-10-14
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