History (HSTR) Courses>Gaming and the Historical Imagination

HSTR300C - Gaming and the Historical Imagination

Description

Games can be informative and fun in helping us to understand historical events and processes; however, they can also be deceiving, impairing our understanding of the past through misleading information. Many games have a narrow cultural framework that may subtly or overtly project certain biases and values. Video and board games are played and then critically analyzed, and the pros and cons of using games to represent historical situations are discussed.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of HSTR 300C, HSTR 300 (if taken in the same topic).
  • May not be counted toward upper-level requirements in Honours, Major, or General and Minor Programs in History.

Course offered by

Department of History

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

Use the buttons below to search the timetable. If the search results show 0 classes and the message ‘Please search again’, then the class is not scheduled for the selected term.