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Games and Game Design (BA)

USA

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What will I learn?

The BA in games and game design offers students the opportunity to participate in a fun and engaging degree engineered toward gaining students employment as designers within the growing field of games and ‘serious games’ development. Students will cultivate their understanding of the principles of game design with tools and techniques that will allow for the creation of numerous levels, mods and games during their academic study. Courses will give students a broad social understanding of the considerations of games developing in an age of advancing technology, and how to tailor-make games to ensure their personal creative concepts are developed and realized.

Learning Outcomes

Successful graduates of this program will be able to:

Conceptualize and design specific gameplay experiences with an understanding toward the principles of design and their reception by the user.
Demonstrate technical proficiency in the planning and creation of game levels, mods and multilevel games.
Demonstrate an ethical, professional and cultural understanding of game design, and a readiness to work in the global market.
Display an understanding of the principles and technologies involved in designing for games, and the broader fields of serious gaming, VR and simulation.

Which department am I in?

School of Communications

Study options

Full Time (120 Hours)

Tuition fees
US$31,450.00 per year
Start date

January 2025

Venue

St Louis Home Campus

470 East Lockwood Avenue,

ST LOUIS,

Missouri,

63119, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

Students must completed high school or from a home school program.

Freshman applicants are expected to complete a college preparatory secondary school program with at least 19 units of academic credit. The University strongly recommends the following distribution:

English: 4 units

History/Social studies: 3 units

Mathematics: 3 units

Foreign Language: 2 units

Science (two laboratory): 3 units

Fine Arts: 1 unit

Academic electives: 3 units

Applicants most likely to be admitted will have a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, and a class rank in the top 50 percent of their high school class, if applicable.

English language proficiency requirement:

TOEFL: iBT: 80

TOEFL: ITP: 550

IELTS: Academic: 6.0

Duolingo: 110

Pearson: 53

Cambridge Academic English: 169

Password: 6.0

GTEC: 1201

iTEP: 3.7

SAT's English-based Reading and Writing Score: 450

ACT composite score: 23

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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