ENGL 4680

Critical Approaches to Video Games

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This seminar will read key texts in critical video game studies to consider how race, gender, indigeneity, and sexuality shape the code and the machines that we play. In addition to critical readings by scholars in Indigenous studies, Black feminism, and video game studies including Joanne Barker, Christine Sharpe, Bo Ruberg, and, we will also read creative works by Mark Danielewski, Gabrielle Zevin, and Elissa Washuta among others to consider how books, narratives, and non-fiction essays transform in relation to video games.

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Distribution Category (ALC-AS, SCD-AS)

When Offered Fall or Spring.

Satisfies Requirement Satisfies the post-1800 requirement for English majors.

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