CHID496f: Close Playing, or, Bioshock as Practicum

Schedule

Thurs 1/6

• Introduction to the Course, Close Reading & Close Playing
• Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
• Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B"
• "A Meditation on Close Playing"

Thurs 1/13

• Read/Watch "Metroid: The Other M Review"
• Save Point: Welcome to Rapture, Medical Pavilion

Wed. 1/19

Keywords Group: "AVATAR"*

*if you cannot attend, please arrange a make-up assignment

Thurs. 1/20

• No Class
• Save point: Neptune's Bounty, Smuggler's Hideout

Thurs. 1/27

• Save Point: Arcadia, Farmer's Market

Thurs. 2/3

• Save Point: Fort Frolic

Thurs. 2/3

• Save Point: Hephaestus, All is Revealed

Wed. 2/16

Keywords Group: "POWER/CONTROL"*

*if you cannot attend, please arrange a make-up assignment

Thurs. 2/17

• No Class
• Save point: Olympus Heights, Apollo Square

Thurs. 2/24

• Save Point: Point Prometheus, Proving Ground, The Endgame

Thurs. 3/3

• Close Playing Presentations

Thurs. 3/10

• Close Playing Presentations

Mon. 3/14

• Finals Begin, Critical Game Review Due

Mon. 3/21

• Grades Due

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