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This course provides students with the skills to become a key part of this explosive growth, and potential to become key innovators in this exciting and rapidly developing area. It offers students with prior programming/scripting experience the transferable skills to design, develop and analyse games and simulations for a range of application areas and to conduct interdisciplinary research in the serious applications of games technology, particularly in healthcare, education and training.

Programme Structure

Stage 1:
Core Research Skills for Postgraduates; Games Programming; Serious Game Design and Research

Elective: Choose one from: Interactive Heritage Visualisation; Applications in Medical Visualisation

You can exit after Stage 1 with PgCert Serious Games and Virtual Reality

Stage 2:
Motion Capture and Interaction; Audio for games and interactive applications; Serious Games Development; GSA Elective

You can exit after Stage 2 with PgDip Serious Games and Virtual Reality

Stage 3:
MSc Research Project

Entry Requirements

Honours degree or equivalent professional practice in any of the following disciplines: Computer science, computer graphics, computer programming, software development, mathematics, or physics, Computer games programming, game development, game design, game art, 3D modeling and animation, interactive systems