MSc Serious Games and Virtual Reality Program By The Glasgow School of Art |Top Universities
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Program Duration

12 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

Art and DesignMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Art and Design

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

The MSc provides students with the skills to become a key part of this explosive growth, and potential to become key innovators in this exciting and rapidly developing area. The MSc offers students with prior programming/scripting experience the transferable skills to design, develop and analyse games and simulations for a range of application areas and to conduct interdisciplinary research in the serious applications of games technology, particularly in healthcare, education and training. The Master of Science (MSc) in Visualisation programme provides an academic framework for postgraduate students to engage with the application of 3D visualisation, computer graphics and games technologies across a variety of fields and in widely differentiated social, scientific, medical, technological and industrial contexts. The MSc programme creates a unique opportunity to combine architecture and heritage / human anatomy/ serious games with state of the art digital technologies, including 3D laser scanning, digital reconstruction of historic sites, artefacts or human anatomy, interaction and visualisation using virtual reality facilities.

Program overview

Main Subject

Art and Design

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

The MSc provides students with the skills to become a key part of this explosive growth, and potential to become key innovators in this exciting and rapidly developing area. The MSc offers students with prior programming/scripting experience the transferable skills to design, develop and analyse games and simulations for a range of application areas and to conduct interdisciplinary research in the serious applications of games technology, particularly in healthcare, education and training. The Master of Science (MSc) in Visualisation programme provides an academic framework for postgraduate students to engage with the application of 3D visualisation, computer graphics and games technologies across a variety of fields and in widely differentiated social, scientific, medical, technological and industrial contexts. The MSc programme creates a unique opportunity to combine architecture and heritage / human anatomy/ serious games with state of the art digital technologies, including 3D laser scanning, digital reconstruction of historic sites, artefacts or human anatomy, interaction and visualisation using virtual reality facilities.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

6+

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Founded in 1845, The Glasgow School of Art is one of the few remaining independent art schools in the UK. With a proven history of producing some of the world’s most influential and successful artists, designers and architects, the GSA’s studio-based specialist, practice-led education draws talented individuals with a shared passion and concern for visual culture from all over the world. Many graduates have chosen to stay in Glasgow so that today the city is home to one of the UK’s largest and most vibrant creative communities. 


Undergraduate students work within the School of Fine Art, the School of Design or the Mackintosh School of Architecture. We offer undergraduate degree programmes in Architecture, Communication Design, Digital Culture, Fashion Design, Fine Art Photography, Interior Design, Painting & Printmaking, Product Design, Product Design Engineering, Sculpture & Environmental Art, Silversmithing & Jewellery and Textile Design.

Founded in 1845, The Glasgow School of Art is one of the few remaining independent art schools in the UK. With a proven history of producing some of the world’s most influential and successful artists, designers and architects, the GSA’s studio-based specialist, practice-led education draws talented individuals with a shared passion and concern for visual culture from all over the world. Many graduates have chosen to stay in Glasgow so that today the city is home to one of the UK’s largest and most vibrant creative communities. 

 

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