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Develop the knowledge and skills you’ll need to understand and work with the world’s most popular medium, opening career doors in the global game industry, game and media journalism, digital humanities, new media policy, finance, law, entrepreneurship, digital culture studies, and related fields.
Core Courses
- PAH 200: Introduction to Applied Humanities (3 units)
- PAH 201: Applied Humanities Practice: Techniques & Technologies for Public Enrichment (3 units)
- PAH 372: Intercultural Competence: Culture, Identity, Adaptation & Intercultural Relations (3 units)
- PAH 383: Pre-Internship: Building Career Readiness (3 units)
- PAH 420: Innovation & the Human Condition: Learning How to Improve Life in the Community & Beyond (3 units)
- PAH 493: Internship (3 units)
- PAH 498: Senior Capstone (3 units)
- One elective (3 units) from the approved list.
Emphasis Courses
— 4 courses from among the following —
- PAH 230: Video Games as Artifacts: Appreciating Interactive Multimedia Entertainment (3 units)
- PAH 231: Global Video Game Cultures & Their Origins (3 units)
- PAH 330: The Video Game Industry: An Introduction to the Business of Making Money with Play (3 units)
- PAH 331: Video Game Studies: Critical/Cultural Approaches (3 units)
- PAH 332: Tabletop Games: Play, Culture, and Design of Board and Role-Playing Games (3 units)
— and 2 additional courses from among the following —
- GAME 305: Legal Aspects of Game Industries (3 units)
- GAME 307: Narrative Practices in Digital Games (3 units)
- GAME 308: Diversity & Bias in Games (3 units)
- GAME 309: Simulation Design & Development for Complex Problem Solving (3 units)
- GAME 310: Gamification in Society (3 units)
- ISTA 251: Introduction to Game Design (3 units)
- ISTA 301: Computing & the Arts (3 units)
- ISTA 451: Game Development (3 units)
- Prerequisite: ISTA 350 OR CSC 210