ENGL1824 — Games as Texts
In this course students will write for, play, and analyze tabletop roleplaying games as one way through which communities tell stories. Possible games may include a Lovecraftian Horror game designed by Black gamers set in the Harlem Renaissance era that seeks to push back against the racism that HP Lovecraft espoused, a Queer adventure game in which players explore emotion-based storytelling, and a Science Fiction/Fantasy game created by Indigenous gamers set in a world where colonialism did not devastate the Americas. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM