Game On: Scott Mellor leverages a popular video game to engage students in a first-year medieval studies course
It took awhile for Scott Mellor to realize he was teaching his class backwards. For years, Mellor, a distinguished teaching faculty member with the Department of German, Nordic and Slavic+ Studies, would begin his popular World of the Sagas course, a First-Year Interest Group (FIG) based on the legends and lore of Iceland and the …