# Games for Social Change

Detail of a screenshot of The Cat and the Coup, a videogame by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad. (Used with permission.)

### Instructor(s)

Scot Osterweil

### MIT Course Number

CMS.615 / CMS.815

### As Taught In

Fall 2013

### Level

Undergraduate / Graduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

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- Assignments: presentations (no examples)
- Assignments: written (no examples)

## Course Description

Run as a workshop, students collaborate in teams to design and prototype games for social change and civic engagement. Through readings, discussion, and presentations, we explore principles of game design and the social history of games. Guest speakers from academia, industry, the non-profit sector, and the gaming community contribute unique and diverse perspectives. Course culminates in an end of semester open house to showcase our games.

## Related Content

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- Game Design
- Media Studies > Digital Media

Scot Osterweil. CMS.615 Games for Social Change. Fall 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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