Developing a New Major

Image via Wikipediainterdisciplinary programs are good but have to decide who’s in charge, who gets to make decisions, who makes decisions about tenure, who pays

game program as part of bigger tech/web/storytelling focus at UT_Dallas, 3 different schools involved – AS (they’re incharge), Science & engineeringk business

might have a certificate program open to everyone – ASU does that

for program to get credibility with academics – faculty need to do research get published

for program to get credibility with industry – need to produce good students who do good work

program can sponsor game design competitions – year long projects, getmoney for cash prizes way for faculty to get peer recognition for tehir games, like getting an article published, film festivals

students at many of the programs represented wanted more higher level classes

lots of students want to do games but program as to be really good and focused for htem to have any chance of getting jobs – - there aren’t enough jobs for everyone who things they want to be in games, don’t want to get stuck in QA forever

most programs see big drop off in enrollment between year 1 & 2, programming is hard, industry isn’t what they expected

game program has skills that are good in lots of industries – so even if game industry isn’t what htey expected – still places for them to ue their skills – lots of companies want interactive web sutt

try to get industry for real world clients for programs – some schools ask industry to sponsor (for a fee) or to sponsor a prize in a game compeition in exchange for getting a game

iportant to put student projects up on the web for potential industry contacts

gotta do more C++ lss java, flash, incorporate game develop all 4 years in the program

make connections with game companites to bring game development industry connections to the students

SCAD has an EA lab where student work on readl EA projects and if EA likes them they pay the students

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