Game Design+ Games & Interactive Media Concentration

About this opportunity

The GAME School educates the next generation of learners and empowers them with technofluency — its development, application and implications. We prepare students to be socially aware, critically thinking global citizens who strive to bring about positive change in a society that will be increasingly shaped by revolutions in new technologies.

Game Design, BS 

This interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science program in game design combines a hands-on approach to creating games with a rich conceptual understanding of the cultural context of games, play, simulation, virtual environments and interactive media. This program prepares students to be culturally aware, technologically savvy, critically-thinking global citizens who strive to use their expertise in game design and media arts to bring about positive change in a society increasingly shaped by revolutions in new technologies.

Media Arts and Sciences (Games and Interactive Media), BS

In the Bachelor of Science program in media arts and sciences with a concentration in games and interactive media, students learn to create computational media, which is computation combined with objects, sound, video, time, space, culture and bodies; breathe behavior into media, objects or systems by programming; and think critically about how computation impacts lives and how culture makes a difference in how people experience computational media, a critical skill in this age.

This concentration program in games and interactive media pairs a maker approach with a rich historical and conceptual understanding of games, augmented and virtual reality, esports, and location-based and themed environments and experiences. Working within this interdisciplinary program, students create, envision and critique digital and hybrid spaces that impact work, education, communication, interpersonal relationships, entertainment, physical and mental health care, and lifelong learning.