SLAV 2500 - Spring 2025
Bits & Bytes: Exploring Vampires in Video Games
This class will explore the origins of the vampire in the world of video games and how original folklore, over time, was altered. This will include an overview of the vampire’s movement into popular culture from old belief, how it first entered video games, and the most culturally significant games starting in the late 1970s and entering the modern era. Students will have the opportunity to explore both literature and video games to analyze how vampires and the lore surrounding them is represented and, through this, create a final portfolio that includes a literature and game review and a game they make themselves.
Lecture
Mondays and Wednesdays @ 2:00 PM-3:15 PM in Clark 108
Staff Information
Instructor: Prof. Stanley Stepanic (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Office: New Cabell 259
Office Hours: TBD
Email: sjs2x@virginia.edu
Website:
Instructor: Prof. Mark Sherriff (Computer Science)
Office: Rice 400
Office Hours: TBD
Email: sherriff@virginia.edu
Website: http://marksherriff.com
Teaching Assistants: To Be Determined,
How Does This Course Count?
- BA in Computer Science Majors: This course has been approved as an Integration Elective.
- Other College Majors: Check with your department, SIS, or Stellic.
- All Engineering Majors: This course counts as either a HSS Elective or an Unrestricted Elective.
- All Other Schools: Check with your school, SIS, or Stellic.
This is a course on VAMPIRES. We will be discussing blood, corpses, death, murder, and all the things that make the human race interesting and terrifying! If you are concerned the content may disturb you it probably will!