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Health Video Games & Exergaming

NEW LEARNING COMMUNITY CLASS

Play games! Workout!
Improve your health and fitness!
Design your own new games!

Watch this video about health games for some background info.

• Earn 5 credits for only 3 hrs per week on campus
  (additional class time to be done online)
• Part online, part onsite. You need to sign up for both CA190 and HE100
  (the sections are linked).
• Recommended for Health majors, Gaming majors and other majors:
  • Fulfill the college's health requirement with the HE100 class
  • Fulfill the gaming degree's CA190 requirement,
    or count CA190 as an elective
• Late Start: Class starts a few weeks later than most classes
• Comfortable with computers? Waive the prereq for CA190 (see below).
• Taught jointly by a Health professor and a Computer Applications professor!

See www.studygaming.com for more info about our gaming programs!

This class covers the cutting-edge topic of health and fitness games, from movement games like Dance Dance Revolution, Wii and Xbox Kinect that can counter childhood obesity, to games that reduce pain for cancer patients, help kids manage diabetes, treat autism and ADHD, train doctors and nurses, improve homeland security and emergency response, and educate patients about topics like drug addiction, AIDS prevention, immunology and nutrition.

You'll not only experience many of these games, but you'll also develop and document your own creative ideas about entrepreneurial new games to address health needs.

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The class will be part online and part on campus. The on campus portion is scheduled for Monday afternoons, 1:30-4 pm.

You need to have basic computer and internet skills in order to take this class.

Email Us:
Prof. Deborah Solomon: deborah.solomon@montgomerycollege.edu
Prof. Karen Thomas:  karen.thomas@montgomerycollege.edu