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 Teaching Senior Secondary History
SGD102 Teaching Senior Secondary Mathematics
SGD103 Professional Experience: The Professional Teacher
SGD200 Teacher as Researcher
SGD202 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
SGD214 The Psychology of Learning
SGD321 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
ICT352 Diversity and Inclusion

*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 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
SGD103 Using Data for Learning
SGD200 Economics for Business
SGD202 Discovering Management