BA in Interactive Entertainment

The Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Entertainment explores the full potential of game design and interactive experiences. Students learn about the depth and diversity of the form-from AAA development processes to indie and experimental play genres, from virtual and alternate realities to expressive and meaningful games designed to enrich, educate, and influence a wide audience.

The Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Entertainment is granted through the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts. Students study within a framework, which combines a broad liberal arts background with specialization in a profession. Undergraduate students take their pre-professional courses in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, including the general education requirements. Major courses are selected from the curriculum of the School of Cinematic Arts.

For time immemorial, the desire for humans to imagine and create characters, environments, and adventures has been a universal catalyst that binds people, cultures, and entire civilizations, giving us common hope, purpose and direction. It is a venerated tradition that spans time and distance, from the hand drawings in the Caves of Lascaux to the great oral tales of Homer to the vignettes transmitted on the screens of today's cell phones.

Throughout the 20th century and now in the 21st, the School of Cinematic Arts has nurtured and inspired the writers, directors, scholars, entrepreneurs, producers, animators, interactive designers, and others who have developed an unparalleled mastery in cinema, television and new media.