Serious Games Design

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The rapidly growing Serious Games industry focuses on solving real-world problems using the universal appeal of play. In this major, you'll learn how to design and deliver game experiences to drive positive change in education, healthcare, marketing and more.

You’ll study game-based learning, puzzle design and game production, and use these skills to create emotionally rich and challenging experiences within your own games and simulations, including experiences for PC, mobile and virtual reality.

You can take your newfound knowledge and skills into the many companies that are now growing around the games industry.

Career opportunities

Job opportunities include embedded roles in government agencies and not-for-profits, as well as video games publishing, marketing, production and management.

Major (8)

For a major in Serious Games Design, students must successfully complete 8 courses:

Required courses (8)

Course	Semester of offer	Units	Requisites
SGD100 Business Law and Ethics
SGD102 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
SGD103 Medical Genetics
SGD200 Advanced Genetics
SGD202 Population Ecology and Genetics
SGD214 Genetics
SGD321 Introduction to Game Design
ICT352 Introduction to Games Programming

*Available to be studied online

Minor (4)

For a minor in Serious Games Design, students must successfully complete 4 courses:

Required courses (4)

Course	Semester of offer	Units	Requisites
SGD100 Introduction to Game Production
SGD103 Experimental Game Design
SGD200 Video Game Analysis and Design
SGD202 Interactive Narrative: Puzzles and Quests