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This project-based course provides an in-depth understanding of how the computer game design process works. Students with little or no programming experience will learn how to create their own computer games using either "drag-and-drop" game engines to create 2Dimensional and 3Dimensional games without any programming or computer programming for wireless devices (cell phones), using a subset of Java programming language J2ME, with examples from the game development process. This project-based course provides an in-depth understanding of how the computer game design process works. Students with little or no programming experience will learn how to create their own computer games using either "drag-and-drop" game engines to create 2Dimensional and 3Dimensional games without any programming or computer programming for wireless devices (cell phones), using a subset of Java programming language J2ME, with examples from the game development process.

The course explains through an architecture perspective the principles and practice of computer networking, with emphasis on the Internet and on pervasive computing. The following topics will be covered: structure and components of distributed systems, layered ISO/OSI architectures, protocols, local Area Networks, wide area networking issues including routing, flow control. Some advanced topics will also be covered such as pervasive computing, ad-hoc networks, security and privacy.

The Hybrid Workshop is one of the most important aspects of graduate studies, where students bring together their varied interests to create a multigenre, interdisciplinary text. Connections to the visual and performative are welcome. The Hybrid Workshop is meant to facilitate connections between students seminar courses and the themes of these workshops. Instead of focusing on works of a particular genre for an entire semester, students gain a historical understanding of the evolution of hybrid texts, paying particular attention to works from the beginning of the 20th century. They also learn the importance of presenting their work as a chapbook and/or writing that engages the visual arts. The Hybrid Workshop is as much about creative practice as it is about the articulation of the process and learnings behind that practice. Through a series of self-relfective essays students will also learn ways in which they can connect their practice to their critical thinking and readings.

Topics for these intensive, practical modules change every semester. May be taken twice for credit.