Course Schedule

Course Term
Course Attributes
Summer 2025
PAH

PAH 150A1 – Video Game Sights, Sounds and Stories
Gen Ed: Tier 1 Individuals & Societies/150 · Gen Ed Attribute: Writing · Gen Ed: Exploring Perspectives, Artist

This course introduces and helps students to practice a set of critical skills developed specifically for understanding the socio-cultural impacts of video games. Over the course of the semester we will: 1) survey the history of video games and their industry, paying particular attention to how developers - and the technologies they deploy - shape the game medium; 2) unpack game sights, sounds, and stories, with an analytical eye toward their formal and ideological qualities; and 3) collaboratively examine video games as sites of cultural exchange, that is, as teaching and learning tools, playful companions, and complex social and physical stimuli.

Section
101
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May 19 - Jun 7
Instructor
Ruggill, Judd
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Open
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Section
102
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Jun 9 - Jul 10
Instructor
Ruggill, Judd
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Open
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  • Dates: Jun 9 - Jul 10
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Section
201
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Time
Date
May 19 - Jun 7
Instructor
Ruggill, Judd
Status
Open
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0 / 25
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  • Dates: May 19 - Jun 7
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Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 9 - Jul 10
Instructor
Ruggill, Judd
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 9 - Jul 10
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25