SHUM 2701

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SHUM 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 2025WI, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2021SP

Distribution Category (ALC-AS)

When Offered Winter, Summer.

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

  •   Three Week - First.  Combined with: MUSIC 2701

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1495 SHUM 2701   LEC 001

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    • Jun 2 - Jun 20, 2025

    • Moseley, R

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

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