Art and Design: Games and Playable Media

ARTG 139 Queer and Trans Art and Games

Students study, and make, queer and trans art and games. Course considers how gender and sexuality are systems of rules often assumed in game design, and how those rules can be subverted to create novel and experimental games. By identifying and resisting cisnormativity and heteronormativity, students create original game concepts, using a critical, intersectional approach that understands that race as a constitutive element of both gender and sexuality. Course also studies with queer and trans ecologies understanding gender and race as inseparable from our idea of nature.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to art and design: games and playable media, and critical race and ethnic studies majors and proposed majors.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PR-C

Instructor

Micha Cárdenas

Also offered as

CRES 139

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to art and design: games and playable media, and critical race and ethnic studies majors and proposed majors.