Code Title SH Usually offered NUpath Prerequisites Recent instructors
GAME 1110 Games and Society 4 fall, spring Brandon Sichling Fox Zarow Parul Wadhwa Xiaoying Meng
GAME 1850 Experimental Game Design 4 fall Celia Pearce
GAME 1990 Elective 1–4
GAME 2010 The Business of Games 4 fall, spring Caroline Murphy
GAME 2355 Narrative for Games 4 fall EI Brandon Sichling Samuel Liberty
GAME 2500 Foundations of Game Design 4 fall, spring EI Carly Dwyer Caroline Murphy Celia Pearce Erica Kleinman Fox Zarow May ElWakil Samuel Liberty
GAME 2555 Games for Change 4 fall EI Shirong Lu
GAME 2650 Introduction to Game Research Methods 4 spring AD Elina Tochilnikova Wallace Lages
GAME 2750 Games Criticism and Theory 4 spring WI one of: GAME 1110 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) GAME 2500 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) Erica Kleinman Samuel Liberty
GAME 2755 Games and Social Justice 4 spring Derek Curry Fox Zarow
GAME 2950 Game Studio 4 fall, spring EX Christopher Barney
GAME 2990 Elective 1–4
GAME 2991 Research in Game Design 1–4
GAME 3300 Game Interface Design 4 fall Fox Zarow Xiaoying Meng
GAME 3400 Level Design and Game Architecture 4 fall, spring EI Christopher Barney
GAME 3700 Rapid Idea Prototyping for Games 4 fall, spring EI Alexandra To Brandon Sichling Christopher DeLeon Derek Curry Erica Kleinman Jennifer Gradecki Mustafa Feyyaz Sonbudak Samuel Liberty Xiaoying Meng
GAME 3800 Game Concept Development 4 fall, spring EI, WI Bob De Schutter Caroline Murphy Christopher DeLeon Michael Swartz
GAME 3990 Elective 1–4
GAME 4000 Topics in Game Design 1–4 fall, spring Christopher Barney Fox Zarow
GAME 4155 Designing Imaginary Worlds 4 spring EI Celia Pearce
GAME 4460 Generative Game Design 4
GAME 4600 Game Production 4
GAME 4700 Game Design Capstone 4 fall, spring CE Brandon Sichling Caroline Murphy Clareese Hill Xiaoying Meng
GAME 4970 Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 1–4
GAME 4971 Junior/Senior Honors Project 2 4
GAME 4990 Elective 1–4
GAME 4992 Directed Study 1–4
GAME 4994 Internship 4 EX
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