HMS-331C Games/Simulation/Performance Politics

3 Credits

• HMS-331C-01

  Tuesday

  5:00 pm – 7:50 pm

  Engineering Building, 203

  • 

    Holly Adams

• HMS-331C-02

  Wednesday

  5:00 pm – 7:50 pm

  Engineering Building, 202

  • Nicole Adair

This course will introduce students to ideas in performance studies, and the study of games, gaming, simulations, and virtual reality. Topics may include: ritual, performance, performativity theory, classical game theory, evolutionary game theory, video games and video game studies, screen studies and interfaces, virtual reality, simulation software and cellular automata (ie: Netlogo, ‘Game of Life’), etc. No prior knowledge is required, nor any experience with computers.