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- 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 and & Algorithms for Games & Simulations I ( or less commonly, II)
- GCCIS - Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. The building and college that is home to our department school and where will take a lot of your Major classes. Often pronounced "gee-sis".
- GDD - Game Design and & Development, may refer to the major or the sequence of classes named after the major.
- GSD - Game Software Development I - 4080-221, 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 department school that is home to both GDD and NMID majors.
- IIM - Intro Introduciton to Interactive Media
- IST - Information Sciences and Technologies. As well as holding GDD's Intro to Database and HCI classes, 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.