Module Descriptors
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATOLOGY
GAME40150
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 4
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Stephen Webley
Email: S.J.Webley@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Additional Assessment Details
An assignment length 3000 words weighted at 100% assessing Learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3
Module Indicative Content
In this module students learn the mechanisms by which a narrative is constructed and the importance it has to certain types of games. Students learn this by studying the following:-
- Introduction to narrative and narratology
- Narrative structures
- convergence nodes
- Story types
- Plot and points of view
- Linearity
- The character and character development
- The story arc
- Introduction to narrative and narratology
- Narrative structures
- convergence nodes
- Story types
- Plot and points of view
- Linearity
- The character and character development
- The story arc
Module Texts
Atkins B. Manchester University Press, 2003, More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form (ISBN - 0719063655)
Wardrip-Fruin N. The MIT Press, 2006, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance and Game (ISBN - 0262731754)
Crawford C. New Riders, 2004 Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling (ISBN - 0321278909)
Wardrip-Fruin N. The MIT Press, 2006, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance and Game (ISBN - 0262731754)
Crawford C. New Riders, 2004 Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling (ISBN - 0321278909)
Module Resources
Microsoft Office
Module Learning Strategies
3 hours per week Interactive lecture.
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