Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area C1DescriptionComprehensive critical study of the impact of game design and game aesthetics on popular culture focusing on the history and evolution of game technologies, formats, and genres through theoretical readings. Students will learn how games circulate in our wider visual culture and interact with other art forms, most notably cinema. Consideration will be given to analyzing the fundamentals of game aesthetics, production, design, promotion, and distribution and how the elements of the production process produce certain types of game audiences with analysis of how video games reflect the beliefs, aspirations, and values of the cultures where they flourish. Lectures, discussions and readings are supplemented by the screening and critical and theoretical analysis of representative games. For each historical era studied, the influence of video games on popular culture will be demonstrated through film, television, print, and music. 