Intro to Video Games

Summer 2023

Play video games for credit this summer! In this course, you'll learn the history of video games by playing retro game systems in class. You'll discuss the academic approaches to studying games, as well as the role of race, gender, and sexuality in gaming culture. You'll learn how game technology works, and complete an activity in which the class collectively builds its own video game controller. You will also learn to make your own simple video games using Scratch, Twine, and other software--no experience required!

Classical Hollywood

Spring 2023

This course will provide an introduction to classical Hollywood cinema through the work of several key filmmakers, beginning with the golden age of the studio system in the 1930s and 1940s and extending up to the New Hollywood of the 1960s. We will consider the role of directors in a mature studio system marked by an industrialized and collaborative approach to filmmaking. At once ruthlessly efficient and innovative, both liberating and stifling, the studios were responsible for some of the most ambitious and influential works of American culture in the twentieth century.

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