FILM 3420 21 Intro to Video Game Studies
This asynchronous course will introduce students to video games as an art form, as a business, and as a part of global popular culture. The course will begin with a broad establishment of game studies and an investigation of the uniqueness of video games as a medium. Subsequent weeks will introduce different approaches to studying video games, including historical, industrial, technological, cultural, theoretical, and aesthetic.
Students will read material from video game history, scholarly theory of games, and the trade and popular press. Due to the course’s online format, video game case studies will be provided as recorded gameplay from YouTube (and as optional playable versions).
Taught by James Fleury
Summer 2: June 8 - July 10
Attributes: HUM
Course Meeting Pattern
Asynchronous (May include some optional synchronous activities and/or office hours)
Credit Hours
3 units
Tuition
$3750
