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 | |
September 8 | ||
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 | |
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 |
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