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Jennifer Scianna

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Classes with Jennifer Scianna

Game Design I explores fundamentals of game design and developing skills in designing interactive systems for educational, museum, and technology-mediated settings.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.89 GPA, 97.3% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Explore the expressive, social, and cultural impact of games as a medium through focused creation of a single capstone project. Develop an analog or digital game depending on interest and skill set. Designed to build skills in designing interactive games using an iterative approach that incorporates user testing and feedback. Focuses on design practices common to all games which can be applied by a game designer working in any medium, including sports, board games, computer games, and videogames. Opportunities to explore a wide variety of independent games as well as the platforms used to create them.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Computational Research Methods provides an overview of formulating and investigating novel questions using educational data mining and learning analytics tools like social network analysis and Bayesian inference.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027CURRIC 357Game Design I
Spring 2027CURRIC 432Game Design II
Spring 2027CURRIC/EDPSYCH/LIS 803Computational Research Methods
Fall 2026CURRIC 357Game Design I
Fall 2026CURRIC 432Game Design II

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