Game Design & Development: four-year plan

How to read this plan

This is a sample path to the B.S. in Game Design & Development in four years at about 15–16 credits per term. Your actual plan depends on placement, transfer credit, a chosen concentration, and when courses are offered — build it with your adviser and check it against your degree audit. Course numbers link to the catalog.

Year 1 · Fall 14 credits

• UNIV 1000 First-Year Seminar (1 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• MATH 1400 Precalculus (4 cr)
• CS 1100 Introduction to Programming (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)

Year 1 · Spring 15 credits

• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• MATH 1600 Introductory Statistics (3 cr)
• CS 1200 Object-Oriented Programming (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)

Year 2 · Fall 16 credits

• MATH 2400 Calculus I (4 cr)
• GDES 1500 Introduction to Game Art (3 cr)
• GAME 1600 Introduction to Game Design (3 cr)
• Fine Arts elective (3 cr)
• Humanities elective (3 cr)

Year 2 · Spring 15 credits

• GAME 2100 Game Programming I (3 cr)
• GDES 2100 3D Asset Creation (3 cr)
• Social Science elective (3 cr)
• Global Perspectives elective (3 cr)
• PHIL 2300 Ethics (3 cr)

Year 3 · Fall 12 credits

• GAME 2300 Level and Systems Design (3 cr)
• GDES 2300 Texturing and Materials (3 cr)
• CS 2400 Data Structures and Algorithms (4 cr)
• Wellness elective (2 cr)

Year 3 · Spring 15 credits

• GAME 2500 Game Art Pipeline (3 cr)
• GDES 2500 Environment Art (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)
• COOP 2000 Cooperative Education (recommended) (0 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Fall 12 credits

• CS 2600 Computer Organization (3 cr)
• GAME 3100 Game Programming II (3 cr)
• GDES 3100 Character Art (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Spring 12 credits

• CS 3200 Databases (3 cr)
• GAME 3300 Narrative and Player Psychology (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)