MD-UY 2314 Interactive Narrative

4 Credits

This course introduces students to the complex relationship between interactivity and storytelling. Students analyze how an interactive structure creates narrative. Works explored in this course range from nonlinear novels, experimental literature, audio narratives, theater/performance to film as narrative databases and games. The study of the structural properties of narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time, space, and storyline is complemented by theoretical texts about authorship/readership, plot/story, and characteristics of interactive media.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of EXPOS-UA 1 or EXPOS-UA 4.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.