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Game design has helped rekindle interest in computer science and become a hot new major at more than 200 schools across the country, according to the Entertainment Software Assn., a trade group. Because making games crosses several disciplines, the diversity of programs that offer such courses is staggering: Fine arts colleges, engineering schools, film schools, music schools and even drama programs are sending graduates into the fast-growing industry.
So what does UCI have to offer for folks interested in working in the video games industry?
Graduate program: ace@uci
ACE is a transdisciplinary Graduate Program in Arts, Computation and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, supported by the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (SOTA), the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering (SOE).
Undergraduate program: ICS Concentration in Game Culture and Technology
The concentration in Game Culture and Technology is available to students majoring in Information and Computer Science, Informatics, Computer Science, and Studio Art.
It exposes advanced students to an influential and expanding sector of media culture and contemporary art and technology practice, facilitates students’ media literacy in relation to an increasingly prevalent art and entertainment form, and enables students to be more critical consumers and producers of new media art and culture.
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