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Overview
Understanding Video Games is an open, free MOOC, and all learners are welcome. This course is being
taken concurrently by University of Alberta students for credit at the University of Alberta. If you are a
learner interested in earning academic credit, but are not enrolled at the University of Alberta, there is a
way you can potentially receive credit from other universities. Please remember there is no requirement for
you to pay to take the exams if you simply want to take the course for free or if you are only interested in a
Signature Track verified Coursera certificate.
Ways you
can take
UVG

What do
you get

What do I get for

completing/passing

What
does it
cost me

How I
register?

Free
course

Complete
course

A Statement of
Accomplishment

Free

You dont
need to
do
anything
else

Signature
Track

Complete
course +
Identity
Verification

Verified Certificate from

Coursera and UAlberta
(non-credit)

$69

Register
here

First,
register
for
Signature
Complete
course +
Signature
Track +
Proctored
Exams

Identity
Verification
+
Proctored
midterm
and final
exam

A Credit by Proxy
statement that includes the
verification of Signature
Track and your grade as
marked by the University
of Alberta. If you have a
passing grade, you will
have achieved the
equivalent of a University
of Alberta course credit.

Track
here
$69 for
Signature
Track
$316 for
the two
proctored
exams*

After the
first three
weeks of
the
course
you will
sent a
link to
register
for the
midterm

and final
How can I receive credit from other universities for Understanding Video Games?
You will need to do two things if you are not a University of Alberta student:
1. Register for Signature Track
Only students who are registered for Signature Track will be allowed to take the midterm and final exams.
See Signature Track Guidebook for more details. You can also just take Signature Track for the verified
Coursera certificate if you are not interested in taking the exams.
2. Sign up for the midterm and final exams
Signature Track students who are not enrolled at the University of Alberta who want to take the exams will
pay a $263 Canadian fee. The exam option for students not enrolled at the University of Alberta will be
available soon and all Signature Track students will be alerted by email that they have the option of paying
to take the exams.
It is important to understand that Coursera and the University of Alberta can't actually grant you credit at
your university or college. The decision to grant you credit is always up to the professors at your university
or college. The University of Alberta and Coursera are committed to giving you everything you need to take
to your university to request credit. The information on this page gives you everything you need to take to
your professors at your university for them to evaluate.
You can take the exams to add to your resume or CV or for the sheer challenge of taking a university-level
midterm and exam and be graded, but if you are hoping your university will grant you credit for
Understanding Video Games, please make sure you have your university's support before you pay to take
the exams.
Course Description
Understanding Video Games is about understanding the literacy of video games while
teaching students how to study games, and engage in informed discussions about them. Topics covered
are play and game, emergence versus progression, game mechanics, story, interpretive theory, the culture
of games, violence, sex, and race in games, and finally, serious games.
Other Documentation
Here's what you'll want to print out and take to your university or college:
1. Instructor of Record's biography
2. Information about the University of Alberta
3. Teaching Outcomes - https://docs.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/file/d/0BixaUFv0jGrd09NeVEtaGNpUEk/view
4. Course Outline - https://docs.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/file/d/0BixaUFv0jGraHNYbWNlTHNNZmM/view
5. Course Description - https://docs.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/file/d/0BixaUFv0jGrenE3RHZEUFlqUXM/view
Get Teaching outcomes, course outline and description
To get a feel for what the exam testing experience will be like, a sample exam in the University of Alberta
testing tool is available to preview. The questions are real questions prepared for the course that will not be

used on the midterm and final exams. Please note that this is a sample exam has been optimized for
Google Chrome and Safari. For the exams, all modern browsers will be supported.

Created Mon 25 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PET

Last Modified Tue 23 Sep 2014 3:34 PM PET