Master of Fine Arts - Game Design

Program Description

This degree is for creative visionaries intent on producing socially, culturally, and emotionally substantial work. The degree prepares students to advance the frontier of games by exploring emerging theories and applying them to practice. The games students create throughout their degree will be challenged by peers and faculty in critiques. Graduates of the program will be equipped to define and realize their authentic, thriving professional lives. An MFA is also a terminal degree that opens opportunities to teach at the university level and enter an academic tenure-track career.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Situate their creative practice within historical, aesthetic, and social contexts; design and develop games that are significant in those contexts.
• Leverage the affordances of games to intentionally evoke specific emotions and experiences, purposefully communicate ideas as well as have the desired social impact.
• Critique games from a variety of perspectives including historical, aesthetic, and social.
• AIteratively build projects up from simple prototypes to increasingly complex systems.