A publication of Wednesday, April 8, 2015 10 Wednesday, April 8, 2015 Summer on the Hill The Daily Tar Heel SUMMER ON THE HILL STAFF TABLE OF CONTENTS JENNY SURANE AARON DODSON Business and Advertising: Digital Advertising: 3 Gaming EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALISON KRUG Kelly Wolff, director/ Katherine Ferguson, [email protected] COPY CO-EDITORS general manager; Rebecca manager; Kush Shah, for class [email protected] KATIE REILLY Dickenson, advertising executive MANAGING EDITOR DALE KOONTZ director; Lisa Reichle, Advertising Production: 4 Italian art [email protected] DANNY NETT business manager; Alex Gwendolen Blackburn, ELLIE SCIALABBA Walkowski, print advertising at UNC MCKENZIE COEY ASSISTANT COPY EDITORS creative manager; Chelsea manager; Megan Mulherin, Mayse, production assistants PRODUCTION DIRECTOR [email protected] social media manager; Ashley [email protected] Spruill, marketing manager 5 Baseball’s PAIGE LADISIC Newsroom Adviser: Erica TYLER VAHAN ONLINE EDITOR Perel still on DESIGN & GRAPHICS [email protected] Customer Service: Paul EDITOR Ashton, Carolyn Ebeling Editorial Production: Stacy [email protected] KELSEY WEEKMAN 6 Summer and Alexa Papadopoulos, Wynn, manager JOEY DEVITO representatives politics KATIE WILLIAMS ASSISTANT ONLINE VISUAL EDITOR EDITORS Printing: Triangle Web [email protected] [email protected] Display Advertising: Erin Printing Co. 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A religious studies profes- dents will pay $620 per Although this is his first sor, Bayne said he enjoyed By Katie Reeder credit hour. Maymester course, Bell said the smaller class size of Staff Writer Yopp said Maymester is he has seen studies that have summer courses because it more suited for students who shown cases where shortened allowed him to interact more For students looking to want time for other activities class terms have enhanced with students. earn more credits and knock during the summer. student learning. Bell said he He said in his summer out a few general education “One of the ideas (behind thinks part of the reason is course last year, he had 12 requirements, summer school Maymester) was to give stu- because students do not have students in a class that nor- could be an attractive option. dents some options so that to balance five courses. mally has about 180 students “I think for students who they could earn some credit Professor Brandon Bayne during the school year. really are trying to graduate in summer and then have free said this could even be a chal- Yopp said the average in four years and want to do a time to do an internship, do lenge in a summer session Maymester class size is 14 stu- second major or minor, sum- study abroad, work a job or course, especially in those dents. She said summer session mer school is a great option,” do something else with their that typically come with a lot varies more because it includes said Jan Yopp, dean of sum- summer,” she said. of reading. more large lecture classes. mer school. Some Maymester students “You have to think about Each summer session is will even get to travel as part how to structure the class in a [email protected] five and a half weeks long, of their course. and classes meet for an hour Professor Geoffrey Bell DTH/CATHERINE HEMMER and a half each week day. is teaching a course in the Maymester courses only last environment and ecology Will Partin, a graduate student at UNC, is planning on teaching a for three weeks, but students department that will spend new course, Art History 290: The Critical Histories of Video Games. are in class on week days for a week in Clearwater, Fla., Stratford Hills three hours and 15 minutes, in the Tampa Bay. Students Yopp said. will apply the concepts they This summer, the learned in class by helping and Summer University is offering 550 sec- restore islands affected by tions of summer classes, 60 of invasive plants. which are during Maymester. Bell said he thinks the Stratford Maymester and summer format of Maymester cours- class looks at Apartments video games his course. The class is UNC’s first “By virtue of (video games’) humanities course on popularity, games both pro- duce and reflect cultural video games. attitudes toward race, gender, violence and sexuality,” Partin By Carly Berkenblit said. “There’s no one way to Staff Writer talk about games, so I wanted to develop a curriculum that For Will Partin, excited would reflect the diversity of doesn’t begin to capture his the medium.” feelings about the University’s Partin also added a num- first humanities course on ber of field trips into his video games. course. One trip includes a “Excited is an under- visit to the Ubisoft studio statement,” said Partin, the in Cary, which makes video graduate student teaching the games including “Assassin’s course this summer. Creed” and “Just Dance.” The summer session He also plans to utilize • 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom course, titled Art History guest speakers into class Apartments 290: The Critical Histories lectures who range from of Video Games, will look at professional gamers to indie video games through their game designers. • 9 Spacious Floor Plans history, theory, form, function Senior Dalia Kaakour said and culture. she has never heard of the • Less than a mile to UNC “I didn’t take a class on course but said she has never game studies until my senior had any interest in games. and Downtown year,” Partin said. “Once I But Partin explained how took that class, I knew I’d the course goes beyond just • Located on Bolin Creek want to teach my own version video games.