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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisite: MGP 650 or MGP 651) This course covers game testing, play testing, bug checking, and general quality assurance. Students learn how to create a testing plan, learn about different bug tracking software, and the stages of game development from Alpha testing to Beta testing and finally to the creation of a Release Candidate of the game. Topics also include the value of testing to game production and an examination of the intimate relationship between testing and iterative game design. Students will gain hands on experience testing commercial Beta or Alpha stage code.
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4.50 Credits
This course deals with all business aspects of the game industry. Issues pertaining to working with publishers and developers will be explored as will pitching games, creating RFPs, the importance of a P&L, and ways game publishers go about evaluating potential new games. The complexities of working with licenses will be explored, as will issues relating to working with the press, marketing of games, and critical issues of market deadlines and how these can impact game production. Contractual issues and the basic financial structure of the games industry will also be covered, as well as an examination of how all these business issues impact both game design and game production.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisite: all core courses in the program) While enrolled in this course, an MFA-GP candidate plans, develops and produces a thesis project in consultation with a thesis advisor. The thesis consists of an original game prototype, a commercial quality game design document, a critical evaluation of the project design and a digital portfolio of previous work in the program. To be considered for graduation a candidate must submit the completed thesis to a thesis committee within one year of the start of MGP691. The thesis committee is responsible for evaluating the thesis and determining whether the student has met the requirements for the MFA in Video Game Production and Design as specified in the program outcomes. After candidates successfully develop a design proposal, they are issued IP grades until a completed thesis is completed and evaluated by the thesis committee. Grading is H, S, or U only.
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4.50 Credits
This course is an exploration of values and ethics in American business utilizing debate and written exercises. It also considers ethical issues arising in the global business environment.
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4.50 Credits
This course is a survey of the theories, techniques, and concepts of management in organizations and the role of the manager in a technologically-oriented society.
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4.50 Credits
An overview of the issues of quality applied to human resources management, topics include the delegation of authority and empowerment, work groups, team building, and employee involvement, reward/recognition programs and employee morale, and the importance of written and oral communication skill in the delegation, sharing, and execution of work. Students gain a clearer understanding of the ways the workplace is changing to improve productivity and profitability.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ECO 203 and ECO 204) A study of the accelerating internationalization of business, this course introduces upper-division undergraduates to international business within three broad subject areas: (1) the economic framework of international business, (2) the operating frameworks of multinational corporations, and (3) a framework for global strategic management. It uses case studies to illustrate concepts and methods.
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4.50 Credits
A study of the application of strategic management principles to the development, organization, financing, and operation of a business enterprise, this course integrates and applies skills and knowledge gained in other business courses, especially those in management, marketing, accounting, and finance. To enroll in MGT 442, students must first complete all "Preparation for the Degree" courses and at leastfour of the courses listed as upper-division BBA requirements.
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4.50 Credits
A survey of the fundamental concepts of production and operations management, the course covers the use of quantitative methods and computer applications for forecasting, resource allocation, decision theory, capacity planning, project management, inventory management, and quality assurance.
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4.50 Credits
A study of entrepreneurship with particular reference to creating and starting a new venture. Emphasis on historical development of entrepreneurship, risk taking and entrepreneurship, innovation and marketing the plan, financial plan, organizational plan, going public, and legal issues for the entrepreneur.
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