Category Archives: Courses

University of Florida Honors Courses — Fall 2010

By Garrison | Published: August 31, 2010
From the Uni­ver­sity of Terra Florida Uni­ver­sity of Florida Hon­ors Courses — Fall 2010 catalog. “21st Cen­tury Skills in Star­craft is an 8 week entirely online course that uses the pop­u­lar real time strat­egy (RTS) game Star­craft to teach valu­able 21st Cen­tury Skills through a hands-on approach. With soci­ety becom­ing increas­ingly technology-based and fast-paced, it [...]
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Arcade Theory Almost Full

By Garrison | Published: August 30, 2010
The Uni­ver­sity opened reg­is­tra­tion this AM, and CCTP628, Arcade The­ory, is almost full. If you are inter­ested in tak­ing the class but are unable to reg­is­ter (due to a hold on your record, et cetera), please email me to let me know, and I’ll save you a seat.
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Are Bugs Really All That Bad?

By Garrison | Published: August 29, 2010
My nor­mally reli­able Mac­book Pro has been act­ing up this week­end, sput­ter­ing, whirring and churn­ing, so I’ve been think­ing a lot about OS crashes and ker­nal pan­ics. This semes­ter, in my new grad­u­ate course, Arcade The­ory (CCTP-628), we’ll spend some time on glitches, gaffes, bugs, and break­points. The dig­i­tal glitch is, to my mind, the [...]
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GMU “Overwhelmed” by Interest in Game Design BFA

By Garrison | Published: April 30, 2010
Via Game­Pol­i­tics, news that the new-ish Game Design BFA offered at GMU has met with“over­whelm­ing” stu­dent response. A story in the Fair­fax Times reports that the school has already enrolled around 200 stu­dents into the pro­gram, best­ing an inter­nal goal of hav­ing 110 stu­dents in the pro­gram by 2012. As Scott M. Mar­tin, Assis­tant Dean [...]
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What Would Tocqueville Make of the American (Digital) Farmer?

By Garrison | Published: April 23, 2010
In Jan­u­ary of this year, on the day fol­low­ing the death of his­to­rian Howard Zinn, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz deliv­ered a thought­ful lit­tle talk at SUNY Buf­falo. In so doing, I think he man­aged neatly to extend Zinn’s 20th Cen­tury civ­i­tas a lit­tle fur­ther into our own time. “I’m wor­ried that stu­dents will take their obe­di­ent [...]
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New Course: CCTP628 Arcade Theory

By Garrison | Published: April 6, 2010
I have started to build an infor­ma­tion web­site to accom­pany the new course I’ll teach this fall at George­town, CCTP628: Arcade The­ory. As of now, only the course descrip­tion is avail­able, but I will add more in the com­ing weeks. Visit arcadetheory.org
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The Course of Empire

By Garrison | Published: February 1, 2010
Update (7 Feb): For a sketch of the Hait­ian infor­ma­tion infra­struc­ture, check out Michael Deibert’s post from Slate, Hait­ian Radio Returns to the Air. Orig­i­nal Post I won­der how oth­ers feel about this newly-listed MIT Media Lab course (spring 2010). On the one hand, there’s a lot here to be admired: The course is clearly the [...]
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Kirschenbaum’s Simulations Course at UMD

By Garrison | Published: January 25, 2010
Matthew Kirschen­baum, over at UMD, is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish and the Asso­ciate Direc­tor of MITH, the Mary­land Insti­tute for Tech­nol­ogy in the Human­i­ties. His blog is chock full of inter­est­ing stuff, and his tweets are prolific. A year ago, he pub­lished a good lit­tle arti­cle in the Chron­i­cle on why human­i­ties stu­dents must [...]
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