KEC Course: Playing Multispecies in the Anthropocene

Abstract

This is a course description on how to work together and develop a game with the help of norm-critical pedagogy and feminist posthumanities. The course was first proposed by Linda Paxling and is revised by the KEC Board for Course Development to fulfil the quality assurance standards of the Arctic Bologna Process, which is standardized to address all types of students across geography and species at the institution. The course adapts Kumashiro’s work on anti-discrimination (2002) to fit multispecies learning beyond the strictly human, while adhering to rigorous academic scholarship with clear course objectives, learning outcomes, and assessment criteria. The course is intended for second-cycle students.

Keywords

• anthropocene
• bologna process
• course description
• course development
• fiction
• games
• multispecies
• norm-critical pedagogy
• pedagogy
• second-cycle education