| Title: | Role-Playing Games and Humans |
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| Course Section Number: | THE-219-01 |
| Department: | Theater |
| Description: | Role-playing video games invite players to inhabit other selves, navigate moral systems, and shape living worlds. This seminar positions the RPG within the humanities, exploring how questions of morality, freedom, identity, and fate become playable. Through analysis of works like The Witcher 3, Undertale, Persona 5, and Baldur's Gate 3, students consider how design, narrative, music, and art create meaning and emotion. Readings from game studies, philosophy, and developer interviews frame our discussion, and a culminating creative exercise in RPG Maker will offer hands-on insight into how choice and consequence shape story and self. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 19, 2026 |
| End Date: | May 9, 2026 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/20/2026-05/07/2026 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Lilly Library, Room LGL
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| Faculty: | Abbott, Mike |
Course Status
| Section Name/Title | Status | Dept. | Capacity |
Enrolled/ Available/ Waitlist |
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THE-219-01
Role-Playing Games and Humans |
OPEN | Theater | 12 | 0 / 12 / 0 |