The School of Architecture’s undergraduate curriculum links together the professional training necessary for a career in the field.

Focusing on the creative side of game development, the BFA in Game Design aims to transform students into critical makers with the ability to create high-quality, innovative, and expressive games, playful experiences, and artifacts across a broad array of media and contexts.

The computer science and communication studies combined major integrates practical skills and theory. You’ll gain both a strong computer science foundation and a deep understanding of the major conceptual frameworks for human communication—plus how to apply these learnings to solve problems in today’s society.

This combined major is an interdisciplinary program in which students are encouraged to explore connections between Music and Computer Science. Possibilities include the composition of new musical works based on generative algorithms, the development of digital signal processing software for the manipulation of sound and/or the development of software analysis tools.

Apply an understanding of cognition to the design of data visualizations, interactions, devices, and experiences.

Combine a strong foundation in computing with design, a discipline in which computing plays a critical role.

The combined major in economics and journalism integrates the analytical and critical thinking skills from economics with the versatile and dynamic world of journalism.

This combined major is designed to provide training that merges the basic and applied science underlying environmental change with the best principles and journalistic practices.

The Departments of Marine and Environmental Sciences and Landscape Architecture provide an education in basic environmental science and landscape architecture-related disciplines.

The Game Design and Music combined major with a concentration in Music Technology prepares students to manage all aspects of music and sound design integral to the creative process in Game Design. Students focus on the digital sound technologies, audiovisual integration techniques and collaborative skills, grounded in real-world experience, that are necessary to apply one’s musical imagination effectively in a game design environment. Also emphasized are the aesthetic, expressive, psychological and social perspectives essential to meaningful engagement across a broad range of applications in the game industry.

Students will engage in building and developing games and playable media experiences while completing courses in computer science and specialized game technology and design.

The Computer Science and Journalism combined major supports a student who understands that journalism now takes place not just in print but also in the digital world especially on the internet. This program permits a student to learn the principles, practices, and responsibilities of the journalism profession and to understand the systems and technologies that support digital media.

Northeastern University is a top-50, Tier-1 research university that has both a world-renowned computer science faculty and an award-winning data journalism faculty.

The computer science and media arts combined major is ideal for creative students who love technology. You’ll acquire a solid foundation in both fields through curriculum that spans photography, animation, video, database design, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. Media Arts general learning outcomes 1. Demonstrate awareness of the foundation and historical methods of digital media and applying research in portfolio development. 2. Analyze and critique artistic media effectively through both verbal and written communication, showing the ability to collaborate with peers and related disciplines. 3. Create a large body of portfolio work representing a wide range of concepts reflecting advanced level of analysis 4. Evaluate current and future trends in the development digital media by employing skills to disseminate and share information over the medium. 5. Explain and employ a unique personal style that shows significant contribution in the medium.

This combined major educates students in psychology and music and the interface between the two disciplines.

The Physics/Music Technology combined major is an interdisciplinary program in which students are encouraged to explore connections between Music and Physics.

Psychology and Theatre, BS

The computer science and theatre combined major is ideal for creative students who love technology as a means to expand what is possible in the performing arts.

Focusing on innovation, societal impact and player-centric design, students in the Graduate Certificate in Game Experience Design get hands-on experience in designing games under the guidance of world leading faculty and industry experts in game design.

The Graduate Certificate in Game Science offers students an opportunity to obtain the ability to analyze player experiences with new state-of-the-art methods and techniques, such as game analytics and biometrics, as well as more traditional ones, such as interviews and surveys. Students get hands-on experience with these methods and techniques under the guidance of world leading faculty and industry experts in game science.