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

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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