UNL Comp Sci - game design class/prof?

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<p>My son wants to pursue a BS in Computer Science, with the ability to take some classes and develop projects in game design and development. Based upon UNL's 25/75 numbers and its aggressive approach to financial aid, explicitly to attract high-scoring students from out of state, he's strongly considering the school. We know that Nebraska has a CS department, but are there any students or parents out there in CC who can tell us: does the program include game dev classes? If not, are there one or more CS professors there who might be up for starting to hold them there?</p>

<p>My son has already taken the initiative to not only taken the game des/dev class (and AP CS) at his school, but he's student teaching it next year and writing a game for the iTunes store that is playable in English and Japanese - and he started the Game Design Club at our large public high school, so he's willing to start new things if there's a professor at UNL who's up for it.</p>

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<p>I can’t answer your specific question but I can say that IMO the CS program at UNL is better than others we investigated (I have SLO and USC in mind as I write this), in that UNL has a higher percentage of professors who are actually interested in teaching rather than focusing solely on research. I saw your S’s stats from other posts and maybe he should consider the Raikes School at UNL. I don’t know if a PSAT of 219 in your state would qualify him as a National Merit Finalist (in MA it wouldn’t but in Ohio it would), but FYI my S is at the Raikes School with a full ride. (With his NMF ranking he earned OOS tuition paid in full, plus book stipend, and the Raikes School provides a room & board scholarship). S is enjoying Raikes, and as a parent I think it is a great program. Unfortunately it doesn’t have name recognition, but hopefully that will change over time.</p>