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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
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