Course Content
Unit 1: Cultivating Transformational Communities
This course explores foundational concepts and practices to consider when community building around analog role-playing games for transformative impacts.
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Unit 3: Academia and Analog Role-playing Games
This section considers a specific role-playing community: that of scholars studying these games and practices.
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Unit 7: Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
In this unit, we will be explicitly focusing on the impacts of these topics on communities as a whole beyond the context of specific game designs or play experiences.
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Unit 9: RPG Communities Around the World
We have discussed styles and cultures of play before and examined various traditions. We will expand that work in this unit.
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Unit 10: Transformational Communities and You
In this Unit, you will submit your final draft of Major Assignment 2, as well as reflect upon your experiences.
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Cultivating Transformative Communities

Assessments & Deliverables

Deliverables:

  • Discussion Boards Assignments: You are expected to participate in each discussion assignment, including your initial posts and posts to the required number of peers throughout the week in Ask a Question, Answer a Question format. 
  • Reflection Journal Assignments: You are also expected to complete Reflection Journals at the end of each Unit. Note that only your instructors and you can see your journals.
  • Zoom Workshops: On certain days, you have the option to join two-hour Zoom workshops on conflict transformation instead of submitting the written work for that day. You are still expected to review that days’ course materials.
  • Major Assignment 1 — Autobiographical Game Design Document: This document should contain all the instructions for your nano-game that facilitators and participants need to play, as well as your plans for playtesting and receiving feedback.  Please read the linked instructions for Major Assignment 1 for more details. 
  • Major Assignment 2 — Cultivating Transformational Communities: In this paper, you will describe and analyze your Autobiographical Nano-game Design, applying relevant concepts from the course. Please read the linked instructions for Major Assignment 2 for more details. 
  • Peer Review — Major Assignment 2: You will read the first complete draft of Major Assignment 3 for each of your peers in your group and respond to the required feedback questions to help them improve their work. 

Assessment:  Deliverables will be graded based on completion of the required components on a Fail (U)/Pass (G)/Pass with Distinction basis.