Optional course - Fundamentals of Game Studies 2555-s1KUL-L-FK-FGS

https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=3900 (term 2022/23L)

The course is devoted to digital games and their growing cultural significance following the expansion of the gaming industry and consumption of game texts. The course aims at broadening the students' knowledge and comprehension of digital game texts as experiences and as forms of expression. Throughout the duration of the course the following issues will be discussed: the interplay of the narrative and the ludic elements of digital game texts; the influence of other media on digital game texts; decoupling "games" and "play"; digital game texts covering difficult and complex subjects (themes of loss, guilt, betrayal and disability).

Total student workload

Contact hours with teacher: - participation in meetings - 30 hrs Self-study hours: - preparation for lectures and projects - 30 hrs Altogether: 50 hrs (2 ECTS)

Teaching methods

Observation/demonstration teaching methods: - display Expository teaching methods: - description - informative (conventional) lecture - participatory lecture Exploratory teaching methods: - case study

Expository teaching methods

- participatory lecture

Exploratory teaching methods

- case study

Online teaching methods

- methods developing reflexive thinking

Course coordinators

Artur Duda
Katarzyna Marak

Assessment criteria

Graded credit.

Assessment methods:
Continuous evaluation (40%) and assigned project (60%)

Assessment criteria:
fail- (59%)
satisfactory- (60-67%)
satisfactory plus- (68-75%)
good - (76-84%)
good plus- (85-90%)
very good- (91-100%)

Practical placement

n/a

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 2555-s1KUL-L-FK-FGS in USOSweb