Theory and Games
Watch lecture videos. Post response to each on your own blog; post a link from the course page, back to your online response. (Remember to post 2-4 comments on the entries your peers wrote, and return to those threads over the next few days, to share your insights before the topic closes.)
For the eagle-eyed who noticed that this entry used to be titled "History of Games," I'm pushing back the history lecture in order to make room for this introduction the academic use of theory.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ElizabethSwartzwelder/2010/01/my_theory_about_theories.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KeithCampbell/2010/01/theories.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MattTakacs/2010/01/influential_indifference.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2010/01/el_250_game_and_theory_intromi.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CodyNaylor/2010/01/looking_through_the_window_at.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2010/01/el_250_theories_pt_2_theories.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SusanCarmichael/2010/01/looking_through_different_lens.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaKrehlik/2010/01/the_sims_black_and_white_econo.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichellePolly/2010/01/theory_and_games_lecture.html