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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 Creative Expression and Play through the Arts
SGD102 Teaching English: Curriculum and Pedagogy
SGD103 Teaching Arts in the Early Years
SGD200 Teaching HPE in the Early Years
SGD202 Assessing Learning
SGD214 Teaching HASS in Primary School
SGD321 Teaching Mathematics in the Early Years
ICT352 Professional Experience: Evidence Based Decision Making in Early Learning

*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 Teaching Reading and Writing
SGD103 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
SGD200 Inclusive Practices and Intervention in Early Learning
SGD202 Professional Experience: Curriculum Approaches and Pedagogies

*Available to be studied online