{"id":30214,"date":"2012-04-22T19:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-she-got-back-munanga-started-a-masters\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:10:41","slug":"when-she-got-back-munanga-started-a-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-she-got-back-munanga-started-a-masters\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30214 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-she-got-back-munanga-started-a-masters\/attachment\/30216\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m2wb4hvN0y1qescwho1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>When she got back, Munanga started a master\u2019s degree program in digital media studies at the University of Denver, which has a research agenda built around humane games, with a focus on games for change, education and help. She had no idea how to create a game or what the game design process entailed, but she had a clear idea of what she wanted to accomplish: She wanted to provide educational technology \u2014 games \u2014 to help people new to America learn more about their new country.<br \/>\n\u201cI knew that refugees and immigrants would do better in the U.S.,\u201d she said, \u201cif they could acculturate faster.\u201d<br \/>\nRafael Fajardo teaches game design at the University of Denver and was assigned as Munanga\u2019s adviser. \u201cShe chose to do this kind of project here because we have created an environment where this kind of project gets a hearing,\u201d he said. \u201cI was primarily her go-to person for this project.\u201d<br \/>\nFajardo has specialized in creating socially conscious video games since 2000. The aims of the program are to explore, experiment and make video games that are helpful in society.<br \/>\n\u201cTheresa\u2019s project was harmonizing with that aim,\u201d Fajardo said. \u201cWe were happy to work with her and help her out.\u201d (via <a href=\"http:\/\/cojmc.unl.edu\/mosaic\/2012\/04\/19\/making-game-learning-american\/\">Making a game out of learning to be American | Mosaic<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she got back, Munanga started a master\u2019s degree program in digital media studies at the University of Denver, which has a research agenda built around humane games, with a focus on games for change, education and help. She had no idea how to create a game or what the game design process entailed, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30217,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214\/revisions\/30217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}