You will most likely come across some of the following words / acronyms while at RIT. Here is a hand reference to help decipher them!

  • CIAS - College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. This college houses the art programs including NMD. NMID majors will take elementary design courses from this college.
  • CS - Computer Science. Some advanced electives are CS courses, including Programming Language Concepts, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics courses.
  • DSA - Data Structures & Algorithms for Games & Simulations I or II
  • GCCIS - Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. The building and college that is home to our school and where will take a lot of your Major classes. Often pronounced "gee-sis".
  • GDD - Game Design & Development, may refer to the major or the sequence of classes named after the major.
  • GSD - Game Software Development, the old version of Game Development and Algorithmic Problem Solving
  • IDM - Interactive Digital Media, an old course serving the same function as Interactive Media Development, but used Flash and ActionScript 3
  • IGM - Interactive Games and Media. The school that is home to both GDD and NMID majors.
  • IIM - Introduciton to Interactive Media
  • IST - Information Sciences and Technologies. IST holds many web development courses that may be of interest to GDD and especially NMID majors.
  • JPP - Just Press Play. The achievement system for IGM students and faculty. Check out the JPP homepage for more info and to sign up.
  • NMD - New Media Design - NMID students will most likely work alongside them in the team project in senior year, as well as share some other classes with them.
  • NMID - New Media Interactive Development.
  • NTID - National Technical Institute of the Deaf. An important part of RIT's overall culture and an acronym you will see all over the place.
  • PDM - Programming For Digital Media - 4080-434, an old course teaching steering behaviors as well as an introduction to 3D development in Unity
  • RIT - Rochester Institute of Technology. That one's a given, I hope.
  • SE - Software Engineering. A department and major in GCCIS where students learn about the software engineering process and software design. You may encounter them in computing events at RIT.
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