Concept Art | GSAS-2962
Professor Rush Swope
 
Description: Concept Art is a production class oriented towards teaching students about Video Game, TV, and Film Concept Art workflows. Students will be working in digital painting applications like Photoshop or Procreate to generate characters, environments, motion studies, costumes, accessories, weapons, and other commonly ideated concepts. Students will learn about broad level art concepts like silhouettes, color theory, painting, shape language, and more. Concept art is commonly seen is video game splash art, comics, graphic novels, visual novel games, and board game art.

CRN: ...
Credits: 4.00
Course Type: Lecture
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: GSAS, EARTS

 Course be applied to the following areas:

• Majors:
  GSAS, EARTs concentration (Intermediate Studio course)
  Electronic Arts BS
   
• Pathways | Check back soon!
   
• Minors:
  Electronic Arts 

Introduction to Worldbuilding | GSAS-2961
Professor Nicholas J. Mizer 
 
Description: This course provides an overview of the art of developing, maintaining, and expanding imagined worlds, with special emphasis on worldbuilding for games. Students will be equipped with tools for collaboratively imagining worlds, presenting those worlds through interactive media, and using worldbuilding techniques to promote positive social change.

CRN: 23499 
Credits: 4.00
Course Type: Lecture
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: None

Course be applied to the following areas: Coming soon!

• Majors:
  GSAS, WRIT Concentration (2000-level Writing course) 

200 Year Old Vampires: Reflecting on Motion Picture History Through Undying Eyes | LITR-4960
Professor Christopher Jeansonne

Description: Using a role-playing/storytelling framework for learning, students engage with the history of photographic images and motion pictures. Not unlike in a table-top roleplaying game, students create characters that become vampires shortly after the invention of the photographic image. Small groups of these vampires come together as covens, interacting with the world and each other throughout their (un)life, witnessing the evolution of photography and motion pictures up to the present day. From the perspectives of their characters, students therefore encounter 200 years of history and culture—focusing on the history of images, films, TV shows, and streaming digital. The semester will culminate in a ‘Convocation of the Society of Vampires at the Mausoleum of Memory’—wherein the coven contributes a time capsule of images, artifacts, and reflections, helping the fictional society to curate collections of memories from each era of human cultural history.

CRN: 23513
Credits: 4.00
Course Type: Lecture
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: None

Course can be applied to the following areas:

• Majors | Check back soon for more!
  Communication, Media, and Design (COMD)
  GSAS, Writing Concentration (4000-level communication concentration course)
   
• Pathways | Check back soon for more!
  History
  Media & Culture 
  Narrative & Storytelling
  Science, Technology, and Society
  Visual and Media Arts 
   
• Minors:
  Media & Culture 
  Narrative & Storytelling
  Science, Technology, and Society
  Writing
   
• Graduate | In consultation with Faculty Advisor/GPD 
  Communication and Media Elective

Social Media and Society | COMM-2962
Professor Corinne Jones 
 
Description: Social media impacts our everyday lives; it affects how we develop our sense of identity, how we communicate with others and develop relationships, and how we find information about topics, products, pop culture, and politics. Simultaneously, social media reciprocally reflects existing social dynamics. This course explores those dynamics and that reciprocal relationship. Specifically, rather than a “how-to” course, this course explores theoretical approaches to social media, including identity formation, community formation, surveillance, and digital labor.

CRN: 23369
Credits: 4.00
Course Type: Lecture
Prerequisites: None (strong writing skills encouraged)
Restrictions: 
 

Course be applied to the following areas:

• Majors:
  Communication Media and Design Elective
   
• Pathways:
  Media and Culture
  Science, Technology, and Society
   
• Minors:
  Media and Culture
  Science, Technology, and Society
   

WELL-BEING: CREATING A TOOLBOX | PSYC-2960 
Professor Alicia Walf 
 
Description: Well-being can be defined as feeling sound in body and mind more often than not and generally judging life positively. However, well-being is different for everyone. In this class, students will learn about different approaches to well-being by analyzing scientific findings, incorporating experiential learning, and completing project-based assignments.  

The goal is for students to create their own well-being toolbox.  

Topics will include: stress, boredom, emotion, resilience, contemplative practices, creativity, consciousness, identity, and self-awareness. 

CRN: 23307
Credits: 1.00 *(please note that this is not a 4-Credit Course)*
Course Type: Lecture
Prerequisites: Introduction to Psychological Science (PSYC-1200), or permission of instructor 
Restrictions: None
 

Will apply 1 Credit toward the following areas:

• Major Electives:
  PSYS BS: Psychology Elective 
   
• Integrative Pathways:
  Understanding Human Behavior 
  Psychological Science  
  Well-Being 
   
• Minors:
  Understanding Human Behavior 
  Psychological Science  
  Well-Being