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Students Help Design Game Curriculum

Posted by Zonk on from the designers-of-tomorrow dept.

J writes "In contrast to current stories about publishers creating their own design courses comes news from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Their new "Video Game Design & Development" Concentration was the cover story of LaLouisiane, The University's magazine. This concentration resulted from a collaboration between the Computer Science faculty and members of the Student Video Game Alliance, a student group that had been tackling game development on their own time. The first Video Game Design and Development course began this Spring semester."

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  1. Made my own almost 4 years ago! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 2000-2003, and majored in Entertainment Software Development, a concentration that I designed myself. Many universities will allow you to create a custom major that is NOT a General Studies degree, and this can be an excellent alternative. It will allow you to take a heavily cross-curricular schedule, which is critical in a good game design degree. Here are some of the classes I took:

    Media Violence I & II
    Computer Game Programming
    Software Engineering
    Computer Animation I & II
    Cinematic Techniques
    Film Critique
    Creative Writing
    Medieval English Classics

    I still believe that the best game programming education is the one you do in your spare time, but you can cater college to help support your outside interests! Do not settle when you can have more!