Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Academics - Undergraduate Programs
Digital Interactive Games Minor
Description
The games industry offers a variety of jobs (artist, programmer, producer, engineer) in a number of disciplines (arts, computing, business, music). To respond to the needs of the strong gaming industry present in Reno and a flourishing games industry in the nearby San Francisco Bay Area, the Computer Science & Engineering Department offers a minor in Digital Interactive Games.
This minor is open to all students.
We especially encourage students from Arts, Journalism, Education, and anyone interested in simulations and in computer and video games to consider pursuing this minor.
For further information, please contact the Computer Science & Engineering Department office at (775) 784-6974.
Program Objectives
The minor requires 21 credits and consists of the courses:
- CS 281: Introduction to game development
- CS 381: Game development pipeline
- CS 481: Advanced game development or
CPE 481: Embedded games development - CS 135: Computer Science I
- CS 202: Computer Science II
2 electives (from a list of elective interdisciplinary courses):
- CS 302: Data Structures
- CS 420: HCI
- CS 480: Graphics
- CS 482: AI
- CS 483: AI Programming
- CPE 481 or CS 481 (if not taken already)
- ART 345: Sound and Image
- ART 350: Advanced Digital Media
- ART 441: Seminar on Art and Technology
- ART 451: Problems in Digital Media
- JOUR 451: Interactive Media