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 International Community Development and Global Justice
SGD102 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
SGD103 Indigenous Australia and the State
SGD200 Green Justice: Environment and Social Issues
SGD202 Understanding Society: An Introduction to Social Theory
SGD214 Working Effectively with Aboriginal People
SGD321 Critical Practice with Trauma, Bereavement and Crisis
ICT352 Foundations of Sustainability

*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 Measuring Sustainability
SGD103 Endangered Animals and their Conservation
SGD200 Human Development and Learning
SGD202 Foundations of Literacy and Numeracy