AGPM Handbook

New 23-24 AGPM Curriculum:

Continuing students please note that you have catalog rights and will remain in the same curriculum you started with. If you interested in changing to the new curriculum here is an AGPM Program Guide.

Major Qualification
To qualify for the AGPM major, students must complete the following Major Qualification courses:

ARTG 10
And one of the following:

ARTG 20 or ARTG 25 or ARTG 30

And either of these two courses
ARTG 40 or ARTG 50

Foundational Courses

 Complete the following 3 courses:
● ARTG 10 – Aesthetic Design
● ARTG 40 – Designing Experiences
● ARTG 50 – Play as a Radical Endeavor

and 1 of the following courses:

● ARTG 20 – Games as Art
● ARTG 25 – Games as Art and Activism
● ARTG 30 – Games as Activism

Lower-Division Arts Elective

Students will need to complete 1 lower division arts elective from the list below:

ART 10D 2D Foundation
ART 10E 3D Foundation
ART 10F 4D Foundation
ART 20L Indroduction to Drawing
ART 80T Digital Tools for Contemporary Art Practice.
ARTG 91 Introduction to Game Art Production
FILM 80V Video Games as Visual Culture
MUSC 1C University Concert Choir
MUSC 2 University Orchestra
MUSC 3 Large Jazz Ensemble
MUSC 5A West Javanese Gamelan Ensemble: Beginning
MUSC 5B West Javanese Gamelan Ensemble: Intermediate
MUSC 5C West Javanese Gamelan Ensemble: Advanced
MUSC 6 Classical Guitar Ensemble
MUSC 8A Beginning Balinese Gamelan
MUSC 8B Advanced Balinese Gamelan
MUSC 9 Wind Ensemble
MUSC 10 Central Asian Ensemble
MUSC 80L Artificial Intelligence and Music
THEA 10 Introduction to Theater Design and Technology
THEA 14 Drawing
THEA 15 Special Topics in Textiles
THEA 17 Costume Construction
THEA 18C Drafting-Computer Aided
THEA 19 Design Studio: Lighting Studio A
THEA 20 Introductory Studies in Acting
THEA 21 Acting Studio I: Psychological Realism
THEA 22 Indonesian Dance and Drama
THEA 30 Introduction to Dance Theory and Technique
THEA 31C Dance Studio I: Contemporary Dance Theory and Technique
THEA 33C Dance Studio I
THEA 36 Introduction to Dance Composition
THEA 37 African Dance
THEA 40 Introduction to Directing
THEA 50 Fundamentals of Theater Production
THEA 80Z Indian Dance

History of Art and Visual Culture Requirement
Complete any one 5-credit History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) course. This can be either a lower- or upper-division course.

Upper Division Courses
The Upper Division coursework for the AGPM major will consist of a minimum of 8 total Upper Division courses. At least 4 of these 8 courses must be ARTG courses, and a minimum of one ARTG course must be taken from each of 3 Topic Areas: Craft Refinement, Social Interventions, and Performance, Portfolio + Exhibition.

Craft Refinement
Complete at least one course from the following list:
ARTG 137 Experimental TTRPG Design
ARTG 120 Game Design Experience
ARTG 118 Character Creation for Video Games
ARTG 131 3D Game Art Production
ARTG 132 3D Character Rigging and Animation for Video Games
ARTG 136 Digital Sculpting for Video Games
ARTG 140 Writing for Interactive Narrative

Social Interventions
Complete at least one course from the following list:
ARTG 142 Black Aesthetics: Interventions in Digital Media
ARTG 139 Queer and Trans Art and Games
ARTG 138 Feminist Games

Performance, Portfolio, and Exhibition
Complete at least one course from the following list:
ARTG 134 Spectacular Play (SC)
ARTG 143 Ecofutures (SC)
ARTG 170 Game Design Studio I (DC)
ARTG 171 Game Design Studio II (SC)
ARTG 172 Game Design Studio III (SC)
ARTG 180 Games as Personal Narrative (DC or SC)
ARTG 181 Portfolios + Artistic Authorship (DC or SC)

Students must complete one ARTG course that satisfies the Disciplinary Communication (DC) graduation requirement and one ARTG course that satisfies the Senior Comprehensive (SC) graduation requirement. The courses that meet these requirements are noted below – all of these courses also satisfy AGPM Topic Area requirements.

One course cannot fulfill both DC and Senior Comprehensive requirements, but one or both courses can also fulfill a topic area requirement.

Disciplinary Communication (DC) Requirement
Students of every major must satisfy that major’s upper-division disciplinary communication (DC) requirement. The DC requirement in Art and Design: Games and Playable Media is satisfied by completing one of the following performance and exhibition courses:

ARTG 170 Game Design Studio I
ARTG 180 Games as Personal Narrative
ARTG 181 Portfolios + Artistic Authorship

Senior Comprehensive Requirement (SC)
Students satisfy the senior comprehensive requirement by receiving a passing grade in one of the following performance and exhibition courses:
ARTG 180 Games as Personal Narrative
ARTG 170 Game Design Studio I
ARTG 143 Ecofutures
ARTG 134 Spectacular Play: Performance, Ritual, and Making a Scene IRL
ARTG 181 Portfolios + Artistic Authorship
ARTG 171 Game Design Studio 2
ARTG 172 Game Design Studio 3

The remaining 4 Upper Division Elective Requirements for the major can include any additional ARTG courses in any of the 3 Topic Areas, and any of the courses listed below, which are mostly offered across campus via other departments and programs separate from AGPM. Prerequisites and scheduling of these courses are completely determined by each individual department.

Upper Division Electives
Complete any four courses from the following list:

ART 101 Introduction to Computer Programming for the Arts
ART 104 Digital Video
ART 106A 2D Animation
ART 106E 3D Modeling and Animation
ART 106G Storytelling with Immersive Media and Animation
ART 106O 2D Animation
ART 108 Activate Media! New Media Art Activism and Organizing
ART 135 Digital Painting
ART 147T / THEA 117 Design Studio: Costume
ARTG 118 Character Creation for Video Games
ARTG 129 Special Topics in Game Design
ARTG 129A Special Topics in Game Design
ARTG 131 3D Game Art Production
ARTG 132 3D Character Rigging and Animation for Video Games
ARTG 134 Spectacular Play: Performance, Ritual, and Making a Scene IRL
ARTG 136 Digital Sculpting for Video Games
ARTG 137 Experimental Tabletop RPG Design
ARTG 138 Feminist Games
ARTG 139 Queer and Trans Art and Games
ARTG 140 Writing for Interactive Narrative
ARTG 141 Introduction to Virtual Reality
ARTG 142 / CRES 142 Black Aesthetics
ARTG 143 Ecofutures
ARTG 145 Non-Digital Game Design
ARTG 179 / CMPM 179 Game Design Practicum
CMPM 125 Game Technologies
CMPM 131 User Experience for Interactive Media
CMPM 146 Game AI
CMPM 147 Generative Design
CMPM 148 Interactive Storytelling
CMPM 150 Creating Digital Audio
CMPM 151 Algorithmic Music for Games
CMPM 163 Game Graphics and Real-Time Rendering
CMPM 176 Game Systems
CMPM 177 Creative Strategies for Designing Interactive Media
CMPM 178 Human-Centered Design Research
CMPM 179 Game Design Practicum
CSE 118 Mobile Applications
CSE 183 Web Applications
DANM 140 Introduction to 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, and More
DANM 146 Game Design in Participatory Performance
DANM 148 Introduction to Game Prototyping
DANM 219 Introduction to Electronics for Artmaking
DANM 220 Introduction to Programming for the Arts
FILM 170A Fundamentals of Digital Media Production
FILM 171D Social Information Spaces
FILM 173 Narrative Digital Media Workshop
FILM 177 Digital Media Workshop: Computer as Medium
FILM 179A Special Topics in Animation
FILM 179B Documentary Animation Workshop
FILM 189 Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies
MUSC 123 Electronic Sound Synthesis
MUSC 124 Intermediate Electronic Sound Synthesis
MUSC 125 Advanced Electronic Sound Synthesis
MUSC 167 Workshop in Electronic Music
THEA 104 Multimedia Authoring
THEA 100W Black/African Diasporic World Theater
THEA 114 Sound Design and Engineering for the Theater
THEA 115A Design Studio: Scenic Design
THEA 116A History of Clothing and Costume
THEA 117 /ART 147T Design Studio: Costume
THEA 124 Movement for Performers
THEA 139 Random, With a Purpose
THEA 151 Studies in Performance
THEA 157 Playwriting
THEA 159 Advanced Playwriting
THEA 161 Q Queer Theatricks: Representations and Sensibilities
THEA 167 Africanist Aesthetics: Live Dialogues in the Americas and Africa