HIST 3303-001

Summer 2023 (11-week session)

TTh 10:30am-12:20pm in UH 115 – Live and in the Flesh

Office Hours: By appointment

Make-up Assignments and Exams:

Students will be granted an opportunity to make-up either of the two required in-class exams (i.e. “Boss Battles”) missed for any reason during the course of the semester. Make-up exams, however, must be completed on the lone designated “Make-up Day” scheduled during the last week of semester. [The precise day/times will be announced and posted by the end of the third week of instruction.] Any missed exam not completed on “Make-up Day” will be recorded as a zero (“0”). By contrast, students will not be allowed to “make-up” or turn-in required “Reading Response” essays & quizzes beyond the established deadlines of those individual assignments. No exceptions or accommodations will be made to this policy.

Required Institutional Statements and Policies:

MANDATED INFORMATION

“Student Learning Outcomes”

Students who successfully complete this course will:

1) identify and explain how the development of video and electronic games have inspired aesthetic visions in the arts, music, and literature and affected social, political, and economic transformations across time and place

2) develop an understanding of civic and social responsibility by studying the interrelationships between state agents, public organizations, private companies, and individuals in fostering, sustaining, and institutionalizing technological change

3) demonstrate awareness of the ethical dilemmas that accompany modernization through reference to the impact of gaming technologies in transforming the conduct of war, influencing international affairs, and the altering the socio-economic relationships of disparate national, ethnic, and social communities

4) enhance critical thinking skills by describing and analyzing the cultural, social, and political factors that have shaped the international development of gaming technologies, corporations, and associated groups 

5) develop an ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely with appropriate organization and style through analytical narratives targeted to educated audiences 

Academic Success Center

The Academic Success Center (ASC) includes a variety of resources and services to help you maximize your learning and succeed as a student at the University of Texas at Arlington. ASC services include supplemental instruction, peer-led team learning, tutoring, mentoring and TRIO SSS.  Academic Success Center services are provided at no additional cost to UTA students. For additional information visit:  Academic Success Center.  To request disability accommodations for tutoring, please complete this form.

Note: Students who seek additional academic support and resources for courses offered by the Department of History are encouraged to use the History Tutoring Center. For more information, please ask your instructor.

 

INSTITUTIONAL STATEMENTS AND POLICIES:

https://resources.uta.edu/provost/course-related-info/institutional-policies.php

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Disclaimer:

As is true of all courses, “Scott W. Palmer’s History of Video Games” is a “work-in-progress.” Your instructor reserves the right to revise, alter, and/or supplement course content, assignments, and requirements as he deems necessary. This syllabus is a guide, not a contract.