BATON ROUGE -- Students who want to learn how they can prepare for a career in the video game development industry can attend a free information session on Friday, Nov. 2 from 5-6 p.m. in 338 Johnston Hall. The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will provide pizza for students who attend.
Peter Raad, Ph.D., executive director of The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University, will discuss how his graduate program has produced more than 170 video game artists, programmers and level designers for more than 70 video game studios around the world in the past three and a half years. The Guildhall program has had a 95 percent job placement rate.
“As you might expect, many of our students have undergraduate degrees in computer science or fine art,“ Raad explained. ”However, we have an equal number of graduates who have come from a vast array of undergraduate programs from film to chemistry to music to English literature. If you think you can’t become a video game developer, you might want to think again. What you need is a passion for video games and a desire to explore the edges of creativity.”
Raad will be on campus to participate in LSU’s Digital Media Education Forum. The forum’s sponsors are LSU Office for Research & Economic Development, CCT and the Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium.
The forum will feature speakers from academic institutions that have successfully implemented digital media curricula, as well as industry representatives who can discuss the skills students from these programs would need to enter the workforce. Representatives from colleges and universities will attend the two-day forum Nov. 1 and 2 at the Lod Cook Conference Center to learn how they can implement digital media curricula. For more information on the forum, please visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/dme/.
Publish Date:
10-24-2007
