Integrating Storytelling & Critical Game Studies into the Curriculum

FAIN: AA-284498-22

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350)
Courtney Rivard (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

A one-year curricular development and faculty training program leading to a minor in critical game studies.

This proposal seeks funding to create a one-year Initiative in Storytelling and Critical Game Studies at the UNC, Chapel Hill that will lead to a minor in Critical Game Studies (CGS) administered by the English & Comparative Literature Department. CGS brings rhetorical and literary theories together with feminist studies, queer studies and ethnic studies to investigate how game narratives shape and are shaped by power structures and cultural representations. The initiative includes five major objectives: (1) the creation of six courses that will constitute the core of the CGS minor, (2) faculty training in game studies scholarship and teaching strategies that incorporate games in the classroom, (3) the development of “plug and play” teaching modules with corresponding workshops, (4) the creation of a vodcast on teaching with games in the classroom, and (5) the submission of the proposal for a new minor.