Schedule

Key Dates

• Sept 6 - Fall term begins. Full fall, early fall, and fall/winter classes begin.

• Sept 20 - Last day for registration & course changes

• Sept 30 - Last day to withdraw from full fall and fall/winter courses with a full fee adjustment.

• Oct 9 - Thanksgiving Holiday

• Oct 23 - 27 - Fall Reading Week

• Dec 8th - End of Fall term (classes follow a Monday schedule)

• January 8, 2024 - Winter term begins. Full winter and early winter classes begin.

• March 15, 2024 Last day for academic withdrawal from fall/winter courses.

• April 10, 2024 Winter term ends.

Schedule Overview

Fall Term 2023

Week	Wed	Topic
1	September 6	Prologue
	September 8	Scavenger Hunt
2	September 13	What is History? (Timeline gameplay)
	September 15	What is History: Perusall Tutorial
3	September 20	Lecture: What are the Middle Ages? (Game play - Prof. Noggins. Medieval Times or children's book exercise)
	September 22	Discussion: Myths of the Middle Ages
4	September 27	Discussion: What are games?
	September 28	Optional Field Trip: Canadian War Museum Exhibit: Wargames
	September 29	Lecture: Medieval Games: case studies
5	October 4	Lecture: The Middle Ages as Seen from Modern Games
	October 6	Lecture: The Middle Ages in Modern Games (continued)
6	October 9	Thanksgiving
	October 11	Library Games (and research hunt)
	October 13	Hands-on History - Medieval Manuscripts at Carleton
7	October 18	Lecture: Mythbusting: Religion in the Middle Ages
	October 20	Lecture: Mythbusting: Power, Gender, Honour Introduction to Reacting and character sheets distributed
	October 23-27	Reading Week
8	November 1	Lecture: The History of Byzantium
	November 3	Lecture: The History of the Crusades
9	November 8	Game Session 1. Faction Meetings
	November 10	Game Session 2. Debate on Attack
10	November 15	Game session 3. March Pact- Leadership and Feudalism
	November 17	Game session 4. March Pact- Church and State
11	November 22	Game session 5. March Pact- Trade, Rules of War and the Crusade
	November 24	Game session 6. Siege and Sack
12	November 29	Game session 7. Committee Deliberations
	December 1	Game session 8. Committee Pronouncements & Ratification
13	December 6	Game Outcomes and Debriefing

Winter Term 2024

Week	Day	Topic
1	January 10	Game Design Exercise: A Medieval Roll and Race I
	January 12	Game Design Exercise: A Medieval Roll and Race II
2	January 17	Medieval Spain – Geography and Early Medieval History
	January 19	Medieval Spain – Politics
3	January 24	Medieval Spain - Religion
	January 26	Focus on Medieval Spain : the Surrender of Toledo (1085)
4	January 31	RTTP Game Design/ Project Outline/ team selection
	February 2	Game Brainstorming – brainstorming a topic
5	February 7	​RPG Character Design I - the theory
	February 9	RPG Character Design II - research help and brainstorming
6	February 14	Discussion of Timeline Research
	February 16	Drafting Character Networks
	February 19-23	Winter Reading Week
7	February 28	Game Themes and Mechanics - Brainstorming
	March 1	Central Intellectual Collisions - Brainstorming
8	March 6	Character Presentations I
	March 8	Character Presentations II
9	March 13	Game Themes and Mechanics - Finalized
	March 15	Central Intellectual Collisions - Finalized
10	March 20	Book Arts Lab - Type Setting
	March 22	Group work
11	March 27	Book Arts Lab - Linocuts
	March 29	Good Friday - Holiday
12	April 3	Peer review and refining
	April 5	Peer review and refining
13	April 10	Finale