CS/ART/JOUR 484
Seminar on Serious Games
This will be a one credit course consisting of nine or so meetings per semester. Students enrolled in this course will attend colloquia with internal (to UNR) and external speakers. There will also be demonstrations, and exhibitions focused on serious games. Typically, demonstrations and exhibitions will be derived from student projects in serious games minor related classes. For now, this is an experimental course and thus being offered under different course numbers - we will depend on your feedback to enhance the course to meet our course objectives below.
April 29
Next and last class is on April 30.
We will ask you to present your game ideas.
Note: Class will be in JCSU Room 420 on April 30
April 15
Next class is on April 16.
Dr. Pippa Avery will be asking you to begin brainstorming a game!
Note: Class will be in JCSU Room 420 on April 16
March 30
Next class is on April 2. Since I mistakenly scheduled a class during
Spring Break, we will move our schedule by one class. Therefore: Larry
Dailey from the School of Journalism will be presenting at our class.
Note: Class will meet in JCSU Room 320 on April 2.
March 6
For your blog: Photos (however bad) document the fact that you were at one of the colloquia/talks/meetings.
Mar 3
We are not going to have class on March 5. Instead you are required to attend and Blog on one of the following three (3) events during Journalism week. We will expect to see you at one of these events. Be there.
- CHANGING CLIMATE DOCUMENTED 7:30 pm, March 5 - Joe Crowley Student
Union Ballroom
Dennis Dimick, Executive Editor of National Geographic Magazine Get an expert's view of the role media must play in reporting the convergence of energy and global warming.
It is nearly impossible to read a newspaper or magazine, listen to the radio, or watch the nightly news without encountering at least one mention of climate change. For years, melting glaciers and ice caps, cataclysmic storms, rising seas, and longer, hotter summers have fueled concerns that our planet is warming and prompted heated debate among politicians, scientists, journalists, and ordinary citizens.
Quietly, below the roar of the crowd, National Geographic has been documenting the effects of climate change and its many contributing factors, and reporting on scientists˘ projections of potential future trends.
Executive Editor Dennis Dimick has overseen this coverage and reporting, working side by side with senior writers, photographers, scientists, and research teams as they gather and analyze the data. He has a unique gift for distilling this vast information into a manageable narrative and he has shared it with a wide range of public and corporate audiences worldwide. Free and open to the public.
- FRIDAY, March 6, INSIGHT TO THE PRESIDENCY, 9 a.m. -- Joe Crowley
Student Union Theatre
Eric Draper, Photographer
See moments of history from the eye of White House Photo Director and personal photographer for U.S. President George W. Bush. Additionally, as an AP photographer, he˘s shot some of the histories most memorable moments from the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney to the Kosovo conflict. Free and open to the public.
- Hasan Elahi, Visiting Artist Lecture, Department of Art Church Fine Arts room 153, 5:30pm, Thursday, March 5th.
From Hasan Elahi's website: http://elahi.sjsu.edu/
Throughout the past fifteen years, I have found myself with one foot in art and one in science, and consider my media to be databases and other electronic forms of information. I am intrigued by the way humans interact with this information, and prefer to investigate the acceptance of technology rather than technology itself. Even more important to me is how technology is packaged, or should I say marketed, as an object of desire and an item of necessity for the consumer. The consumer's perception of technology as both desirable and essential, I feel, is based on a social understanding and (social) functioning of technology. Just as with any other product that has a pioneering stage, an acceptance stage and an obsolescence stage, the timing of how a certain technology is adopted by society is far more significant than the technology itself.
Feb 6
Undergrads: Please email Trish Spoon, tspoon@cse.unr.edu, or fax her at 784-1877, or physically (SEM 242) get to her, a receipt that shows your payment for this class. She will then get you a reimbursement for $133.5. I understand that you can get this receipt through UNR's website or by calling Admissions and Records.
Feb 6
Undergrads: Please email Trish Spoon, tspoon@cse.unr.edu, or fax her at 784-1877, or physically (SEM 242) get to her, a receipt that shows your payment for this class. She will then get you a reimbursement for $133.5. I understand that you can get this receipt through UNR's website or by calling Admissions and Records.
Feb 5
"For Video Games, Mainstream Success Comes With a Price." A NY Times article relevant to our discussion on Jan 23.
January 23
January 22
The syllabus in pdf has our tentative schedule.