Game Design for the Classroom
Course, Bachelor's level, 5SD078
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Autumn 2025 Autumn 2025, Flexible, 25%, Distance learning, Swedish
The course is cancelled.
- Location
- Flexible
- Pace of study
- 25%
- Teaching form
- Distance learning
- Number of mandatory on-campus meetings
- 0
- Number of optional on-campus meetings
- 0
- Instructional time
- Mixed
- Study period
- 1 September 2025–18 January 2026
- Language of instruction
- Swedish
- Entry requirements
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General entry requirements
- Selection
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Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
- Fees
- If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 13,750
- Total tuition fee: SEK 13,750
- Application code
- UU-54814
About the course
In this course, you will learn how to use the design and construction of regular, non-digital, tabletop games as a pedagogic activity for learning. The course goes through basic game design theory along with practical training in how to frame and guide tabletop game construction as an exercise in cooperation, communication, valuing and abstraction. The course is intended for teachers and students of pedagogics, to give a familiarity with game design as a learning process.
Outline for distance course: The course is given as an internet-based course. To follow the course, you will need a computer with an internet connection.
Reading list
No reading list found.
Contact
- Director of Studies Jakob Berglund Rogert
- gamedesign@speldesign.uu.se
- Study administration: Questions about registration, cancellation, certificates etc.
- studieadministration-cg@uu.se