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Experiential Learning

Quinnipiac Game Design and Development experiential learning

All GDD students are required to do at least one semester of experiential learning. This can be a co-op with one of our partner organizations, an internship either on the East Coast or through our QU in LA program, or study abroad. Throughout your time here, we announce opportunities to work with outside clients on real-world projects and encourage you to take advantage of them. We also support you if you want to start your own company and market/publish your work through our Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center and the start-up Accelerator.

School of Medicine

We work with the Frank Netter School of Medicine faculty and students on projects that explore the range of ways that play, interactivity, and simulation can be integrated into healthcare. We also often pair undergrads in the GDD program with medical students working on Capstone Projects.

Your Own Company

If your passion is to publish your own games, then we have a plan for you. You will work with our faculty in the Business and Entrepreneurship program to start you own company. Our GDD 311 class is designed to help students who want to start their own company, working with the QU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to do so. In 2023, we also launched the QU Summer Accelerator, designed to support taking student projects to market.

QUIP-RS

The Interdisciplinary Program for Research and Scholarship (QUIP-RS), which runs for eight weeks over the summer, allows Quinnipiac students to work on a research project or creative endeavor side-by-side with a faculty mentor and receive $5,000 in support of their collaborative efforts. The game Ligand Quest, a collaboration between game design and nursing, was created as a part of this program.