Course Description

Today's games are not just child's play. With their immersive environments, engaging activities, and social networks, games have the potential to influence large audiences in the 21st century the way that motion pictures did in the 20th century. Serious games are designed to inform, educate, persuade, train, test hypotheses, and build communities. This seminar will explore emerging technologies and trends in serious games, and give students the opportunity to design their own serious games.

Course Requirements

• Class Participation - 40%
  This includes attendance, participation with in-class discussions, and presentations of your game designs.
• Assignments - 60%
  These will include 4 writing assignments (reflecting on serious games that you play) and 2 game designs that you will do in a group. Writing assignments are to be done in the Discussion Board area of the course's Blackboard site.

Advisories

Each student must pursue his or her academic goals honestly and be personally accountable for all submitted work. Representing another person's work as your own is always wrong. Any suspected instance of academic dishonesty will be reported to the Academic Judiciary. For more comprehensive information on academic integrity, including categories of academic dishonesty, please refer to the academic judiciary website at http://www.stonybrook.edu/uaa/academicjudiciary/.

The University at Stony Brook expects students to maintain standards of personal integrity that are in harmony with the educational goals of the institution; to observe national, state, and local laws and University regulations; and to respect the rights, privileges, and property of other people. Faculty is required to report disruptive behavior that interrupts faculty’s ability to teach, the safety of the learning environment, and/or students’ ability to learn to Judicial Affairs.

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