PSCI-261: Games for a Better World

Games have been played for centuries in order to bring people closer as a community. This course focuses on how games can benefit society and the world. We use games in a variety of ways to connect with other people both in person and online. Games can encourage people to explore their community, spend time with others, create a large social network, get healthy, and solve social problems. Games used to address social problems and the class will focus on how these games are used ethically including analysis of War Games, Simulations of Infectious Diseases, and Gamification within Education. Students throughout the course will analyze human interaction with games and a variety of game types from collaborative, cooperative, and competitive and different modes of physical games, board games, video games, simulations, mobile games, and role-playing games.