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Minor

Minor in Game Studies

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences 57 courses 13 total credits

About This Program

The Game Studies Graduate Minor serves students whose graduate research or professional interests intersect with the study and design of games, gaming, game design, digital narratives and storytelling, and the digital, VR/XR and AI technologies involved with the crafting of interactive systems and interfaces relevant to the game, film, education, and media industries, and a range of other emerging professions. The minor will foster critical thinking and research on the history, cultural meaning, social impact, ethics, educational uses, theoretical basis, and increasingly significant role of games, gaming, and interactive media in an inclusive and diverse society, as well as advanced methodological, computational, aesthetic, and design aspects of games broadly defined. This versatile minor is intended to offer interdisciplinary support for game-related research being done within students’ primary disciplines. Students whose work is unrelated to games will also benefit from this minor, since it offers training in and experience with cutting edge technologies and design processes as well as a critical lens through which to understand these new technologies.

Degree Requirements

Total Hours 13 credits

Required Colloquium

Code Course Title Credits
GSD 500 Colloquium in Game Studies & Design 0-1
Total Required Colloquium 1 credits

Required Seminar

GSD 501. If both courses are taken the second serves as an elective in the minor.

Code Course Title Credits
GSD 502 Seminar in Game Studies 4
Total Required Seminar 4 credits

CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION

CI 439 (3-4 hours)

Code Course Title Credits
CI 437 Educational Game Design 3-4
CI 482 Social Learning and Multimedia 3-4
CI 499 Issues and Development in Education 2-4

FINE & APPLIED ARTS

Code Course Title Credits
FAA 499 Special Topics 0-4

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Code Course Title Credits
CS 418 Interactive Computer Graphics 0-4
CS 419 Production Computer Graphics 3-4
CS 498 Special Topics 0-4

JOURNALISM

Code Course Title Credits
JOUR 430 Augmented and Virtual Reality 3-4
JOUR 460 Special Topics 1-4

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