UdeM will offer in September a new minor in game studies (30 credits in the first cycle).

This program is designed to enable students :

• acquire a general knowledge of the game space, the rules and the story, gameplay, genres, terms of production and reception, design constraints, the player's experience, the ethical, social, economic, political, etc.
• discover the main theories and approaches critical of video games, like most issues discussed;
• dto initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue with film studies and other disciplines that have objects or related approaches (literature, communication, sociology, psychology, etc.).
• familiarize themselves with the tools of research and analysis;
• independently conduct rigorous research.

Specialized courses :

• Video game history
• Aesthetic design and gaming
• Video game and cinema
• Immersion and mediated experiences
• The kinds and video games
• Screenwriting and new platforms

Note that this program does not include course design practices or programming.

Combined with a major in another discipline (eg cinema, communication, French literature, comparative literature, computer science, sociology, psychology ...), this program provides a bachelor's degree.

Under certain conditions , this degree could include providing access to the MA in Film Studies, D. ÉSS in arts, design and technology or DESS in game design.

DEADLINE FOR FILING AN APPLICATION: AUGUST 1, 2011

Program Information

Bernard Perron
Professor
Head of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art History and Film Studies
Université de Montréal
Tel. : 514 343-7384

Admission Information

Caroline Guay
Technician in the management of student records
Department of Art History and Film Studies
Université de Montréal
Tel. : 514-343-6111, ext 3679