Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0273 - Advanced Worldbuilding: Taking created worlds to the next level
Advanced Worldbuilding
Spring
2025
1
4.00
Jennifer Gutterman
01:00PM-02:20PM TU;01:00PM-02:20PM TH
Hampshire College
339671
Adele Simmons Hall 112;Adele Simmons Hall 112
jgCS@hampshire.edu
In this course, students will take existing foundational world systems and look at more complex solutions for social constructs, speculative created histories, speculative created species of flora, fauna and people as well as develop complex systems in existing worlds to further develop ideas in language, culture, history, architecture, social development and more. Students are expected to come into the course with an already developed world foundation from the previous Worldbuilding class. Keywords:Creative Writing, Speculative Fiction, Game Design, Animation
Time and Narrative This course can be used to fulfill the Division II Project requirement Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time