Chinese Culture and Language Immersion Through Gaming and Storytelling
Prerequisites: Eligible for students that are accepted and have committed to the STARTALK program
This course is being offered in partnership with the STARTALK program and is offered to students who have a basic knowledge of the Chinese language skill. Students will create a game design template, develop their own story-worlds, avatars, and game rules even as they explore the styles and roles of gaming and storytelling in Chinese culture. The course aims to understand traditional Chinese cultures and to communicate in Chinese their heritage background as well as their own identity as a young adult. Students will be able to recognize different genre of literatures and to use that knowledge for creating their own story telling and building a new game in Chinese.
The Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Department at the University of Connecticut has received a STARTALK grant - Chinese and Korean Culture and Language Immersion through Gaming and Storytelling. STARTALK is a federally funded program whose mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages. This UConn Pre-College Summer course is the second module of the larger STARTALK program. Interested students are required to submit an application through UConn's Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Department by December, 2023. Only after accepting and committing to the STARTALK program, may those eligible students enroll in this course. For questions regarding the the STARTALK program please see contact information here.
Sessions Offered
STARTALK Session: June 23 – July 6
Course Fees
Format
Residential, Non-Credit
Related Courses
This class is meant to be immersive and students will experience:
- Students will learn how to discuss the identity issue in today's world;
- Students will learn about the impact of social media and gaming on everyone;
- Students will create a game design template, develop their own story-worlds, avatars, and game rules even as they explore the styles and roles of gaming and storytelling in Chinese culture.
Meet the Professor
Nan Meng
Associate Professor in Residence
Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages
University of Connecticut
