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The Uprising: A Role-Playing Game as an Educational Aid in an Archaeology Seminar Course (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I discuss an analog role-playing game (RPG) entitled “The Uprising,” which I designed for an undergraduate university course on the archaeology of the senses. I reflect on how gaming in the classroom builds on recent pedagogical research and promotes participation not possible with traditional...