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Serious Games Design

Serious games

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)

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
SGD100 Coastal Conservation Planning
SGD102 Animal Form, Function and Evolution
SGD103 Marine Vertebrates: Sharks, Seabirds, Fish, Turtles and Whales
SGD200 Biodiversity and Ecology
SGD202 Discovering Science
SGD214 Calculus II and Linear Algebra
SGD321 Numerical Analysis
ICT352 Discrete Mathematics

*Available to be studied online

Minor (4)

For a minor in Serious Games Design, students must successfully complete 4 courses:

Required courses (4)

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
SGD100 Applied Systems Modelling
SGD103 Statistics with Teeth: Understanding Ecological Data
SGD200 Reading in Advanced Mathematics
SGD202 Applied Mathematics

*Available to be studied online