Gaming
Professor Shalom Staub
Course - Conflict and Conflict Resolution Studies
Their final paper for the course stems from their experience applying a combination of theories from their readings on conflict resolution within the game Peacemaker, a simulation of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict.
Professor Ed Webb
Course – Empires
Students in course play a historical scenario created within the game Civilization IV. They then attempt to explain the differing outcomes from history by using Todorov’s book “The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other”.
Professor Fratantuono
Course – Globalization, Sustainability and Security
Professor Fratantuono used game Civilization IV as a way of introducing his students to systems level thinking on the topic and compared its inherent arguments with other sources on the topic including speakers from the Carlisle War College and “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond.
