The Game Design and Immersive Media major, a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, will hopefully be in the catalog in Fall, 2009. It has classes in Game Design, Scriptwriting, Computer Science, and Art History. It is multi-department and multi-school. It represents the way games are made today by teams of people with different skills who all love to make and play games.

Here is the current list of the classes students in the major will take (as the degree stands now in September 2008):

• CNPH 11100 Cinema Production 1 OR TVR 10100 Introduction to Media Production OR TVR 11500 Introduction to Field Production
• TVR 10600 Introduction to Games and Society
• TVR 13400 Developing Story Narratives
• TVR 20200 Introduction to Game Design and Development
• TVR 20500 Critical Analysis of Games & Immersive Media
• CNPH 23300 Screenwriting
• CNPH 31300 Writing for Immersive Media
• TVR 30101-99 Special Topics in Game Design & Immersive Media OR STCM 30300 Serious Games
• TVR 30200 Gaming Industry
• TVR 40100 Legal and Ethical Issues in Games & Immersive Media
• TVR 40200 Game Design & Immersive Media Workshop (capstone)

  Total Communication Course Requirements: 37 credits

Additional Requirements
Art History Core

• ARTH 1XX00 Art History Course
• ARTH 1XX00 Architecture Course
• ARTH 2XXXX Any 200-level Art History course except ARTH 20100

  Total Art History Core: 9 credits

Computer Science Core

• COMP 17100 Principles of Computer Science 1
• COMP 10600 Flash for Animation and Games
• COMP 22500 Human Computer Interface
• COMP 2XXX Game Development Methods and Technologies

  Total Computer Programming Core: 16 credits

All students in the game design and immersive media degree have to complete a minor outside the Park School.

Electives: In the game design major you have to have an outside minor, which means you take a number of classes in another department not in the Park School. This gives you some depth of knowledge in that field. We want to make games about something, games with stories and strong characters, with unique visual styles, with interesting use of visuals and sound. Use your electives to gain that information. Use your electives to get background info you can bring to your games and make them unique.

There are some interesting minors for game designers - art history, computer science, psychology, music, foreign language, anthropology, and physics. The choice is up to you. Pick something you are interested in, that you want to work into your games. Feel free to talk with faculty about what might be interesting minors or individual electives.

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