Seminar in Video Games: Video Games, Gender and Sexuality

3 units

This seminar considers different topics that illuminate the relationship of video games to culture. Topics vary by semester. The course may have a variety of analytical frames: gender and sexuality, interactivity and reception, narrative and aesthetic theory, industrial or technological history. Prerequisite is graduate status or completion of a 300-level FMS or WGSS course and permission of the instructor. Credit 3 units. REQUIRED LAB/SCREENING TIME weekly.