Ithaca College

Enjoy a highly interactive semester of fun and exploration as you embrace the past by participating in it.  ENROLL IN ICSM 10500-72:  EXPLORING RACE, GENDER, AND POWER THROUGH HISTORICAL ROLE PLAYING.

This course will examine how Americans experienced issues of race, gender, and diversity at two key moments through historically accurate role-playing games:  Forest Diplomacy, 1756-1757 begins with Pennsylvania and the Delaware Indians engaged in a vicious and destructive war.  The focus of the game is a peace negotiation, which seeks to end the conflict.  Greenwich Village 1913:  Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman takes you to the beginning of the modern era when urbanization, industrialization, and massive waves of immigration were transforming the U.S. way of life.  Suffragists, Labor, and Bohemians converge in Greenwich Village to debate what social changes are most important as well as how one can best realize these goals. 

In both games you will learn valuable lifelong speaking, writing, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork skills to prevail in sometimes difficult and complicated--but always fascinating--situations.