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Credit: 3 hours.

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May be repeated in separate terms. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Other prerequisites as specified for each topic offering. See Class Schedule.

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INFO 490 class schedule data for fall 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51938	Lecture-Discussion	CSU	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	English Building	Sandvig, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Section Info: Topic: Play and Technology. Restricted to undergraduate students. This course considers the social science of play and interactive media technology, with many examples drawn from electronic games. The course investigates play as communication, the history of mediated play, competing social scientific and philosophical theories of play, the structure of games, and the societal consequences of mediated play. Both children and adults are considered. The course is organized around competing theoretical understandings of play (e.g., play as development, fate/chance, power, identity, fantasy, self-fulfillment, nonsense), and will be illustrated with examples from current technologies of play. (Graduate students should enroll in SPCM 496 CSG, CRN 35713.) Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.