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SCAD alumni are in demand as professionals with triple-threat credentials as artists, designers and programmers.
The SCAD interactive design and game development graduate program was ranked in the Top 10 in the United States by the Princeton Review in 2011.
The SCAD Game Developers Exchange is the leading game design conference in higher education, attracting top professionals to speak and network with students.
SCAD students master emerging digital platforms to define interactive user experiences on Web pages and mobile applications, and through game worlds and software.
Meet interactive design and game development alumna Whitney Taylor.

Offered in: Atlanta, Hong Kong, Savannah

CMPA	110	Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications
ITGM	130	Digital Design Aesthetics
ITGM	240	Modeling, Materials and Lighting
ITGM	260	Interactive Design
ITGM	303	Programming for Interactivity*
ITGM	315	C++ Programming I*
	-	300- or 400-level ITGM Elective
	-	Directed Elective†
	-	ITGM Elective
Total course of study		40 hours

* Choose one of these two courses.
† Choose from the following:

Consult your faculty adviser in selecting elective courses.

VIEW STUDENT WORK

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SCAD Tech Pro Expo Feb 10, 2012

Mentor Student Connect Feb 11, 2012

Black Bottom Parade game in Hong Kong lobby

Black Bottom Parade, a custom-built interactive table game designed and developed by a team of six SCAD students, was a finalist for juried categories and an audience choice award at Indiecade, an international festival of independent games. Black Bottom Parade was built for the lobby of the SCAD Hong Kong location by an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students who were guided in their research by SCAD professors John Sharp, Matthew Maloney and David Spencer.
Computer Graphics World interviews Weishar

Computer Graphics World interviewed Peter Weishar, dean of the School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts, for its educational supplement in the June/July issue.
T3 in Austin hires Leila Ling

Leila Ling (M.A., interactive design and game development, 2011) accepted a position as junior Web developer with T3 in Austin, Texas.

Interactive Design and Game Development