GWS 204

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Gender in Gaming

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Credit: 3 hours.

Examines the history of gender in videogames, focusing on how the embodied elements of play as well as the spatial logics of games function to promote and resist representation, as well as how games designed by women and people of color are transforming how and why we play games.

Same as ENGL 277, GSD 204, and MACS 204.

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GWS 204 class schedule data for fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	78679	Laboratory-Discussion	GEN	11:00AM -12:30PM	MW	Psychology Building	Starks, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Meets with GSD 190. In this course, we will explore the history of gender in videogames, especially the ways by which movements like #GamerGate and #RaceFail09 constituted a coordinated effort to solidify videogames as an exclusive domain of hegemonic masculinity. Also, we will consider representational, embodied and ludic elements of games in their relation to discrimination. Throughout the course, we will engage with games designed by people whose experience of marginalization within the industry, and ‘real-life’ are transforming games, along with our perceptions, and expectations of them.