MUSIC 2701

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MUSIC 2701
Music and Digital Gameplay

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

This course considers both music and digital games in light of their playability. It aims to provide students with critical frameworks for addressing the diverse roles played by music in digital games as well as the ways in which playing digital games can be considered a musical activity. Focusing on games across an array of genres from first-person shooters to rhythm-action titles, the course will introduce students to recent scholarship on digital games from multiple disciplinary angles.


Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Distribution Category (ALC-AS)

When Offered Winter, Summer.

Course Subfield (HC)

Comments No formal musical training is necessary, but suitably qualified students may take the course as a 3000-level elective by signing up for MUSIC 3901 and completing additional research components involving the creation and/or analysis of specific soundtracks or performances.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Winter Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1112 MUSIC 2701   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    This Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.