Queer and Trans Game Studies (MCC-UE 1043)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed

This course examines the political movement of queer and transgender artists and programmers who are creating games and computational media. Throughout the semester, we read work by queer, trans, and feminist scholars and designers and play the games they created in order to situate today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and people of color. How might we re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games and software by centering game studies on queer and trans life, history, and politics?

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks