Video games and interactive media are an integral part of many of the hottest professional fields today, including education, healthcare delivery, mental health interventions, police training, and numerous industries just to name a few. Those who engage with games, whether for professional purposes or recreation, are dependent on those with the creativity, visual skills, and conceptual thinking ability needed to design the games. Our B.A. in Game Design & Interactive Media will prepare you to pursue a career in the gaming industry. Learn What It Takes to Turn a Game into a Reality: Through our program, you will engage in a broad exploration of how games are built — both technically and artistically. You will work individually as well as in multi-player mode, collaborating with students from other programs and colleges to build your own games. To do this you will build and level up on skills that you develop in courses that focus on narrative, writing, music, visual arts, and more. You’ll use these skills to develop stories, create interesting characters, set rules, and present challenges that prompt interaction with the user. Game development is a multi-disciplinary field, and you must understand each of the disciplines that go into it. You will wear many hats in game development — artist, writer, music expert, and more. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Game Design: What makes the Game Design & Interactive Media program unique is its interdisciplinary approach to preparing students for their future careers. In the program, students study gaming from vantage points provided by Art, Music, Writing, Literature, Psychology, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Computer Science, and more. By studying gaming in this way, students develop the diverse background and multidisciplinary skillsets that game designers need to succeed. Employees in the gaming industry have diverse backgrounds and training, not just narrow expertise in a single skill, and our program aims to prepare students to succeed with this approach.
