Systems & Level Design - CUNY BA Option

MTEC 2210 - Game Design and Interactive Media

Game Design and Interactive Media is a cross-disciplinary foundation for the design of games and interactive multi-media technology for artists, engineers, scientists and technologists. Students learn human-centered design principles and apply these methodologies to collaborative team-based projects across web interactive, mobile, games, virtual & augmented reality, biomedia, and environmental installation. Using case studies, brainstorming processes, and rapid analog and digital prototyping, students learn design thinking and problem solving techniques to enhance usability, incorporate sensory experience, influence perception, increase appeal, and make more effective interactive design decisions.

GD 102 - Beyond Games

This course explores how games are used beyond entertainment by artists, storytellers, educators, and others. The class will be divided into four sections focusing on: games as art, games as story, games as social interaction, and games as tools for learning and social change. Students will read a variety of articles as well as play games relating to these topics. Students will develop educational games and learn about game analysis and criticism.

SOC 32501H: The Sociology of the Internet and New Media

This class will examine the social consequences of new media. The central question in the course is how new communications technologies and forms (e.g. the internet, the mobile phone, social media) are changing the shape of social relations and interactions. In this course, we will define old media as communications media that offer a more-or-less one-way flow of information from a producer to a reader or viewer. New media, by contrast, can be understood as more interactive, permitting media consumers to become producers in their own right. They involve a less distinct boundary between the producers and the recipients of information. As we will see, the transition toward new, more interactive forms of media has enormous implications for the way that society is organized. The way that we relate to each other and, more generally, the way that we produce and consume meaning has changed rapidly in recent years. In this class, we assess these changes, surveying a wide range of cutting edge research and commentary on the social consequences of new media.