UAT’s Virtual Reality Degree applies the design principles of gaming to serious, life-changing applications in such fields as corporate training, medical and therapeutic, military and education. This highly technical field of serious games requires the specialized education that UAT’s virtual reality development degree provides. Students earning this seriously relevant game development degree will be exposed to all the tools of the serious games profession and develop mid-level programming and asset creation skill sets, including:
Program Credits: 120
Major Credits: 36
Semesters to Completion: 8
BUS200 - Entrepreneurship to Market
LAW370 - Legal Issues in Technology
TCH150 - Technology and Society
INT350 - Internship or INT400 - Internship
SIP311 - Student Innovation Project I
SIP483 - Student Innovation Project II and Portfolio Presentation
TCH115 - Thinking Strategies
TCH301 - Ethics in Technology
General Education RequirementsMinimum 36 credit hours including:
COM226 - Communication in Technology
ENG101 - Composition I
ENG102 - Composition II
PSY310 - Social Psychology
ART103 - Digital Asset Creation
GAM101 - Introduction to Game Design
GAM113 - Introduction to Game Tools
GAM115 - Introduction to Serious Games
Skill Development CoursesMinimum 12 credit hours including:
GAM175 - Game Testing and Analysis
GAM200 - Critical Game Studies
GAM218 - Game Scripting for Designers
GAM260 - Instructional Design
Synthesis Cores CoursesMinimum 12 credit hours including:
GAM281 - Production Studio I
GAM375 - Rapid Game Prototyping and Experimental Gameplay
GAM380 - Serious Game Design
GAM381 - Production Studio II