eSports and Gaming Certificate
College: College of Social Sciences & Professional Studies
The eSports and Gaming Certificate focuses on providing students with decision making skills at all levels: tactical, strategic, and competitive. This provides a theoretical framework for understanding the decisions they will need to make as players, competitors, and teams. It will also help them develop the skills to transfer their decision making into a career through the principles of entrepreneurship. And, the certificate will help them see the place of sport – traditional and electronic – in our society. Whatever a gamer chooses to major in, the skills learned in the eSports and Gaming Certificate will help them succeed in the gaming arena and in life.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Identify, interpret, and use oral, written, visual, and nonverbal communication skills that are effective in diverse contexts.
- Demonstrate professional behaviors in interdisciplinary and diverse team environments as they relate to esports.
- Examine, appraise, and execute ethical best practices in esports.
- Identify, articulate, appraise, and analyze the impact esports.
- Demonstrate the ability to work within a team structure to achieve group goals.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate tactical and strategic decision making.
Requirements for the eSports and Gaming Certificate
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| CPS 107 | Introduction to Esports | 1 |
| POLS 217 | Tactical Decision Making 1 | 3 |
| or POLS 317 | Strategic Decision Making | |
| Choose two courses from the following: | 2 | |
| Sports Games | ||
| Tactical Games | ||
| Action Games | ||
| Elective Courses | 6 | |
| Choose two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Strategic Decision Making 1 | ||
or POLS 217 | Tactical Decision Making | |
| Ethics and Issues in Sport Management | ||
| Sport in Society | ||
| Personal Branding and NIL | ||
| The Business of E-Sports | ||
| Total Credits | 12 | |
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A course can be applied to only one requirement within the certificate.
University Requirements for Undergraduate Certificates
Course work in a certificate must be completed with a minimum 2.00 GPA. Departments or programs may require a higher GPA.
A minimum of 9 credits in a certificate program must be taken at UW-Parkside. Individual departments and programs may require more than 9 credits to be taken at UW-Parkside.