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 Community Development and Social Action
SGD102 Animal Ecology Field Course
SGD103 Endangered Animals and their Conservation
SGD200 Animal Form, Function and Evolution
SGD202 Marine Vertebrates: Sharks, Seabirds, Fish, Turtles and Whales
SGD214 Biodiversity and Ecology
SGD321 Science Research Methods
ICT352 Discovering Science

*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 Cell Biology
SGD103 Introductory Bioscience
SGD200 Dynamics 1
SGD202 Manufacturing Technology