GSS209
Pixelated Parts: Race, Gender, Video Games
Subject code
GSS
Course Number
209
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
J. Rubin
Course Long Title
Pixelated Parts: Race, Gender, Video Games
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course considers the politics of race, gender, and sexuality as they emerge in video games and their surrounding ecosystems: in games and their conditions and processes of production, in the representations and spaces of identification that come with the play of games, in the communities that players generate among themselves, and in the affective and material interactions that result when players look at a screen, hold a controller, type on a keyboard, and move a mouse.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(DCS: Critical Digital St.), (DCS: Praxis)
INDS Program Relationship
IDDC - DCA Program, IDGS - GSS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years
Offering Frequency
One-time offering