History and Philosophy: Red Dead Redemption II - Week 1 Methods (summer 2024 course)

Week 1: Methods - This course is experimental in nature, and, thus we will be relying on student effort and input to help us build this video game-focused course. Across four weeks, students will need to play Red Dead Redemption 2 (try to at least get through the 3rd chapter) and reflect on the game against the historical context of “late” turn-of-the-century US Western history. In addition, students will be required to navigate a variety of philosophical ethical issues in the game, identify these ethical issues through the proper philosophical terminology, and situate these ideas within the overall context of U.S. history. For example, what are the ethics of Arthur and his gang; what were some of the ethical dilemmas of the period; how might we make an ethical argument about U.S. society in decades of the 1870s-1910s (the game takes place in 1899).

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