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Introduction to Videogame Studies

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesCMS.300
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2011English
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This course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of videogames as texts through an examination of their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. Students play and analyze videogames while reading current research and theory from a variety of sources in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and industry. Assignments focus on game analysis in the context of the theories discussed in class.

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