Game Design
The purpose of the certificate program in game design is to provide interested students with the theoretical knowledge and practical experience needed to program computer games at the professional level. The core courses included in this program are taught from a software engineering perspective and also include game programming techniques. The elective courses are intended to allow students to strengthen their software engineering backgrounds and to explore advanced areas of computer science important to game programmers. (12 credit hours)
Certificate offered on Campus and via Distance Learning
Required Core Courses
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CIS 587 | Computer Game Design and Implementation | 3 |
| CIS 588 | Computer Game Design II | 3 |
Additional Coursework
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete 2 courses from the following (6 credits): | ||
| CIS 515 | Computer Graphics | 3 |
| CIS 535 | Wireless Technologies and Pervasive Computing | 3 |
| CIS 552 | Information Visualization and Virtualization | 3 |
| CIS 553 | Software Engineering | 3 |
| CIS 577 | S/W User Interface Dsgn&Analys | 3 |
| CIS 579 | Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
| ECE 5251 | MM Design Tools I | 3 |