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2021-2022 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
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COMM 417 - Game Studies


Units: 4
Considers games both as media and as sites of communication and culture. Games are studied through hands-on play and texts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Course may encompass commercial, academic, and independent games.

Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Introduce students to the emerging field of videogame studies and its foundational academic research and publications;
  2. Explore videogame’s impact as contemporary cultural texts, each with their own social communities and significance as media;
  3. Connect and compare videogames to other contemporary digital (and nondigital) media;
  4. Be introduced to a variety of games-related careers and studies through discussions with professionals working in videogames and interactive media.




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