Game and Interactive Media Design students create compelling interactive experiences. Our students are storytellers, critics, artists, advocates, and entrepreneurs. Most students are technologically adept and artistically inclined, but above all else they enjoy playing, making, and modifying games. Game and Interactive Media Design graduates find employment in the commercial game industry and the rapidly expanding market for serious games development, and are equipped to be game journalists, testers, designers, marketers, and writers.

Communication Core - 19 credits
COM 110 Human Communication
COM 111 Mediated Communication Systems
COM 212 Writing for the Media
COM 390 Communication Law
COM 499 Senior Seminar
Three credits of travel study, internship, or communication elective at 300 level or above
COM 261, 262, or 263: Practicum (one credit)

3 credits in Communication outside of major sequence

Game Design and Interactive Communication Sequence - 18 credits
COM 252 Theory and Design of Games
COM 342 Theory and Criticism of Games
COM 352 Game Development
COM 492 Collaborative Game Design and Development

6 credits from the following courses
COM 222 Games and Society
COM 272 Game Industries and Organizations
COM 282 Players, Gamers and Game Culture
COM 302 Narrative in Interactive Fiction
COM 312 Principles and Practices of Interactivity
COM 322 Character and User Interface (UI) Design
COM 362 Puzzle, Obstacle, and Level Design
COM 412 Digital Game Prototyping

Multidisciplinary Classes - 6 credits from these or other courses with advisor’s consent

Writing for Games:
MIS 231 Database I
ENG 311 Writing Fiction (Prereq: ENG 102 Composition)

Graphic Art:
ART 220 Digital Art I (Prereq: ART 105 Design I)
ART 230 Digital Art II (Prereq: ART 220 Digital Art I)

Music:
MUS 131 Music Theory I (Prereq: completion of music diagnostic assessment or MUS 130 Music Fundamentals)
MUS 337 Music History I or MUS 338 Music History II

Computer Science:
CSC 262 Advanced Programming (Prereq: CSC 162 Intro to Computer Programming)
CSC 305 Data Structures (Prereq: CSC 262 Advanced Programming)
or CSC 348 Computer Networking(Prereq: CSC 262 Advanced Programming)

Women’s Studies:
HST 331 Women in U.S. History (Prereq: HST 205 or HST 206 American History)
SOC 357 Women and Culture

Statistics:
STS 220 Intro to Statistics (Prereq: MTH 131 Finite Mathematics or higher)
STS 321 Linear Statistical Models (Prereq: STS 220 Intro to Statistics or PSY 211 Statistics)

TOTAL = 46 credits