The Dean’s Pick is an essay contest open to all Grebel students. The winners are chosen by Dean Trevor Bechtel, who also writes the introductions to the papers and edits them for Grebel Now. These papers showcase the student work that happens at Grebel across the University’s many disciplines.
The Dean’s Picks for this term are two papers which address the very contemporary topics of video games and creation care, analyzing ideas using tools available to university students.
In Marina's paper, she utilizes musicological approaches, most notably including insights gleaned from Dr. Laura Gray’s music and landscape course, Marina Gallagher looks at the music in the video game Final Fantasy. She deftly combines a variety of “serious” tools to help us understand the world of the video game. The paper appears in full online.
Marina is graduating this June.