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Michigan State University is recruiting students now for the Fall 2007 launch of our Serious Game Design masters degree program. We seek outstanding students with a desire to create and study games which change the world.

Serious Games are games with a purpose beyond entertainment, including but not limited to games for learning, games for health, and games for policy and social change. Designing effective, engaging serious games requires theoretical understanding of learning, cognition, emotion, and play. Along with great game design, serious games need content and pedagogy expertise, design research, and impact research. Our graduate program can help you gain the knowledge and experience you will need.

The SGD-MA aims at the heart of serious game design, that magical region where theory and content intersect with game design. Game design for entertainment already requires diverse, multidisciplinary expertise. Serious game design calls upon vastly wider range of expertise and roles.

The SGD-MA Program is a natural graduate degree to compliment a BA or specialization in game design.

Students may enter the program with degrees related to: game design (computer science, art, writing, music, interactive media, etc.) theory and pedagogy (education, psychology, health communication) content (health, environmental science, policy, international relations, etc.)

Some students will already have professional experience in media- related fields, returning to an academic setting to focus on serious game design.

Feel free to visit our web site
http://seriousgames.msu.edu/