[game_edu] Request for Assistance: Game Studies Course

["José P. Zagal"]

Frans Mayra, former DiGRA president, has a new book coming out that is 
essentially what you are asking for. If I'm not mistaken, it's designed 
as a textbook for intro games studies courses.

More info here:
http://www.digra.org/news/archive/2008/03/10/new-textbook-an-introduction-to-game-studies-games-in-culture


Jose Zagal


Archer, Matthew wrote:

> Hello list members,

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> My name is Matt Archer.  I’m a professor of anthropology at Sierra 

> College, located just outside of Sacramento, CA.  I’m writing this brief 

> email to request a bit of assistance in starting a game studies course 

> at my college.

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> In general, I would like to propose a course to our curriculum committee 

> on Game Studies, which would survey the literature in that emerging 

> field, address methods for researching games, and to use that 

> theoretical and research based background to work towards a game design 

> project.  I’m excited about the idea and would love to get it “on the 

> books” here.  The challenge is that I have been informed that I will be 

> unable to do so unless I can demonstrate that such a class exists as a 

> lower division class somewhere else in California (though perhaps beyond 

> California might work as well).  I’ve looked at many colleges.  But to 

> search every department’s lower-division course listings at every 

> college in California is a daunting task.  I’m hoping that someone 

> participating in this list might have knowledge of a related 

> lower-division course which I can use to demonstrate the viability and 

> transferability of the course I’d like to propose.

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> Thank you very much for taking the time to read this request.  And thank 

> you in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.

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> Be well.

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> 

> Matt Archer

> 

> Marcher at SierraCollege.edu <mailto:Marcher at SierraCollege.edu>

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