Game Design

Undergraduate students in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (CASL), the College of Business (COB), and the College of Education, Health, and Human Services (CEHHS), as well as engineering majors in CECS, may pursue a minor in Game Design. Students fill out a Declaration of Minor Form at their school or college’s advising office to declare a minor. 

The Game Design minor requires a minimum of 26 credits of CIS courses with a minimum 2.00 GPA in the courses.

Game Design Minor

The minor in Game Design  requires a minimum of 26 credits of CIS courses (with a minimum 2.00 GPA in the courses), which must include the following:

CIS 150Computer Science I 14
CIS 200Computer Science II 14
CIS 275Discrete Structures I 14
CIS 350Data Struc and Algorithm Anlys 14
CIS 375Software Engineering I4
CIS 487Computer Game Design & Implem3
Select one course from the following:3
Computer Graphics
Intro to Artificial Intel
Computer Game Design II
Total Credit Hours26
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Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering majors may use the courses below (but only as substitute pre-requisites for the CIS minor) in order to take CIS 350:

  • ECE 270 (4) for CIS 150 (4)
  • ECE 370 (4) for CIS 200 (4)
  • ECE 276 (4) for CIS 275 (4) 

NOTE:

1. Engineering majors must take fourteen (14) credits of approved 300/400-level CIS courses not otherwise being used for their major. That is, any 300/400-level CIS courses being used for an engineering major cannot be used to satisfy the Game Design minor.