COMM4337

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Video Game Studies

CommunicationCollege of Arts and Letters

Subject Code

COMM

Course Number

4337

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Units

3

Course Description

Prerequisite: COMM 1200;
Description: This course explores the interdisciplinary field of video game studies. It examines video games as entertainment, cultural artifacts, and communicative texts to be studied and analyzed. Students examine the history of video games, methods of game analysis, issues in video games studies, and their own gaming history and habits.