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CMS.615 Games for Social Change | Comparative Media Studies/Writing

Run as a workshop, students collaborate in teams to design and prototype games for social change and civic engagement. Through readings, discussion, and presentations, we explore principles of game design and the social history of games. Guest speakers from academia, industry, the non-profit sector, and the gaming community contribute unique and diverse perspectives. Course culminates in an end of semester open house to showcase our games.... Show More

Keywords:: engagement, play, purposeful, media, civic, kitty, world, Digital Media, peace, sweatshop, refugee, terrorism, change, games, Game Design, society

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Humanities / English / Language / Composition and Rhetoric

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: November 11, 2019
Author:: Osterweil, Scot
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States