Abstract
Programs of study for Immersive Media are being developed and enacted at many higher education institutions. This article presents a course on Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) in Virtual Reality (VR) that can familiarize undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds with immersive storytelling’s foundational technical, design, and development tenets. The course curriculum balances IDN design and immersive storytelling strategies with VR project management, user experience and interface design, spatial audio, digital scenography, introductory programming, and rudimentary artificial intelligence. The course connects technical and media affordances to theories of IDN to provide an introductory understanding of IDN in VR. The course ran in a remote synchronous modality in the spring of 2021 at a small liberal arts college in Chicago, Illinois. The paper presents the course’s 15-week curriculum, student insights, examples of projects, a rubric for a final project, and a Github Repo with instructor resources.
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