Serious Games Design

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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)

Course	Semester of offer	Units	Requisites
SGD100 Managing the Small Business
SGD102 Thermofluids 1
SGD103 Mechatronic Design 1
SGD200 Mechatronic Design 2
SGD202 Image Processing and Machine Vision
SGD214 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
SGD321 Coastal Conservation Planning
ICT352 Restoration Ecology

*Available to be studied online

Minor (4)

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

Required courses (4)

Course	Semester of offer	Units	Requisites
SGD100 Agricultural and Forest Ecology
SGD103 Advanced Genetics
SGD200 Biochemistry
SGD202 Molecular Biology