VIDEO GAMES AS PERFORMANCE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

CURRIC 277

Explores current research on videogames and learning. Critically reflect on the intellectual and educational merits and drawbacks of videogames and how videogame culture shapes how individuals think and learn.

COMARTS/CURRIC 914

Video games can be powerful experiences that take us to new worlds, teach us about complex systems, and provoke a range of emotions. Games transform us while we play, and some of these changes can be hard to predict and understand. Games can disrupt our sense of self, reshape our pleasures and feelings, lead us to question deeply held values, and allow us to experience new forms of embodiment through an avatar. A growing body of research in game studies engages with this potential for expansive change by focusing on player experience from a variety of methodological perspectives, including phenomenological, feminist and queer theory, critical disability studies, learning sciences, ecocriticism, and media archeology.

COMARTS 547

An examination of the forms, practices, economies, institutions, politics, and modes of engagement that make digital games an important site of culture and power.

THEATRE 213

Offers the fundamental principles and the practical knowledge of design visualization for theatrical productions and entertainment events. Focuses on building students' capability of producing clear and effective visual presentations of their creative design concepts by using the most cutting edge 2D and 3D digital applications.

THEATRE 230

Video game environments by their nature are designed to support storytelling. Develop the skills needed to create rich virtual worlds using theatrical storytelling techniques and three-dimensional modeling.