ENGL 4345: AI and Taste
Spring 2027 UTAAccording to the CEO of OpenAI, "taste is the new core skill." But what is taste? Why is it so important in the age of AI? And how can students leverage their aesthetic judgement to advance their careers?
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ENGL/CSE 4363: Esports
Fall 2025Fall 2026 UTAA cross-listed undergraduate course for English and Computer Science students, Esports treats competitive play as a media system. Students analyze how sport, design, business, spectatorship, training, and community organize one another.
ENGL 4374: Game Studies
Fall 2024Fall 2026 UTAAn overview of the field of game studies: students define play and games, practice close analysis, and study how rules, platforms, representation, labor, ecology, and AI shape playable culture.
ENGL 5310: Introduction to Critical Theory
Spring 2025Spring 2026 UTAA graduate seminar on the history of critical theory and its use as practice: students learn major traditions while roleplaying as theorists who apply frameworks to primary objects.
ENGL/CSE 4362: Game Analysis
Spring 2025Spring 2026 UTAA cross-listed undergraduate course for English and Computer Science students, Game Analysis teaches close play as method. Students turn readings and hands-on play into design analysis, video essays, and prototypes.
ENGL 4399: The Digital
Fall 2025 UTAA keywords seminar in digital culture. Students study infrastructure, automation, simulation, AI, interface, surveillance, remix, glitch, and speculation, then present a five-minute video essay at the Senior Symposium.
ENGL 143: Film and Culture: How to Watch Video Games
Spring 2023 UNCA course on video games as moving-image culture, asking students to watch, play, and analyze games with the tools of film and media studies.
ENGL 155: The Visual and Graphic Narrative: Comics and Games
Spring 2021 UNCA course pairing comics and games to study visual sequence, interface, embodiment, and the forms of narrative that emerge across media.
ENGL 105: Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric
Fall 2017Spring 2018Fall 2018Spring 2019Spring 2020 UNCFirst-year composition courses, including a game-themed version, focused on research writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, and argument.