From the course catalog:
Students explore a variety of current interdisciplinary topics in small seminars limited to incoming first-year students. Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement. Cr 3.
What are we going to be doing this semester?
E-Reserve Readings at Fogler Library can be found
at:
University of Maine System -All Locations
Some links that you might find interesting:
Games
PrezGame (The War Room -- A Campaign Simulation Game)
Drinking games and effect upon student alcohol consumption Dr. Ruth Engs
GameDev.net -- Biology and Gaming Why Women Don't Play Games
Games, Gamers and Gaming Culture
National Institute on Media and the Family
RPGnet - The Inside Scoop on Gaming
The Development of the social culture of multi-player action games on the PC
Traditional African games, a powerful force for education
UC - Videogame Culture Conference
UK Gaming Links Pokemon-General
Welcome to GameGirlz.com! - Your Source for Games From a Girlz' Perspective ;)!
videogames.com's Glossary of Video Gaming
http--www.senate.gov-~commerce-hearings-0321gol.pdf
http--psych-server.iastate.edu-faculty-caa-abstracts-2000-2004-01AB.pdf
ERIC Digest Video Games Reseach, Ratings, Recommendations
Development of Video Game and its Impacts on Societies Socially and Psychologically
Video-game research yields wide-ranging conclusions
Links to Get You Started on Your Research
(You may find these links useful. You may not. You
may use others. Just have a point of departure on your research quest.)
Search Engines
Writing and APA Style Issues
Fogler Library Style Guides (for information on APA style issues)
Evaluating Websites
Evaluating Web Pages, Guide to Library Research (Duke University Library)
Evaluating Web Sites (Cornell University Library)
Native Web Site Evaluation (an interesting site from the University of Arizona to help us think about additional issues of culture and representation.)