Games Design (Top Up)

City of Sunderland College
Undergraduate BA (Hons) Full-time 1 Year Computer games and animation

About this course

Ba (Hons) Top Up (Level 6) :

1. Explore, design, and evaluate creative ideas development through professional preproduction processes that form a strong foundation for production pipelines. 2. Differentiate appropriate game development business practises and implement these to inform the development of successful game products. 3. Research and problem solve a range of contemporary, relatively complex game problems independently and in groups. 4. Contribute to research into game development workflows using appropriate data, sources and methodologies. 5. Develop a range of game production processes ranging from game art and animation production to technical game development using game engines and other relevant game development tools. 6. Act independently in planning and managing self-defined tasks with limited guidance to produce creative game production outcomes 7. Evaluate creative and technical choices made throughout a game production pipeline to judge the success of a project.

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

2139 Information technology professionals
2141 Web design professionals
2134 Programmers and software development professionals
2136 IT quality and testing professionals
3131 IT operations technicians
3132 IT user support technicians

Course Details

Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Sunderland
Scheme
Undergraduate
Subjects
Computer games and animation