Experiential learning at Quinnipiac offers multiple opportunities to apply your knowledge through hands-on work, service and exploration, preparing you for success in 21st-century careers. With an abundance of resources, internship opportunities and career-focused guidance, you'll be equipped with the skills and knowledge that distinguish you to employers and pave the way for long-term success.
Like every Quinnipiac student, you'll have many opportunities to learn via hands-on experience through research, course projects and capstones. These immersive experiences illustrate the depth of your knowledge and skill not only to your professors and peers, but also to potential future employers. These projects allow you to gain an in-depth understanding by applying knowledge to practice, giving you insights into different industries and career paths.
The Game Design and Development program collaborates with partners inside and out of the Quinnipiac community to bring innovative ways of teaching others to life.
Clubfoot is a congenital deformity that twists the foot inward and downward. It is one of the most common congenital orthopedic conditions globally, impacting approximately 174,000 children annually. Although treatment is straightforward and minimally invasive, ensuring lifelong correction takes time and requires significant partnership and engagement with families. Developing a tool to begin to educate family members on the importance of brace wearing could be transformational in successful outcomes.
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Work with faculty to help create a virtual, online version of a successful educational room escape game designed help health science students practice some of the competencies of interprofessional healthcare practice.
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Professor Elena Bertozzi and a team of GDD students are working with Family Planning Center of Barbados on deploying a serious game to improve patient education about family planning.
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History Chip is a global online archive of true stories told by anyone anywhere to build a true people’s history of the world, illuminating shared human experience. Even short and simple stories of school, meals, clothing are important and welcome. We seek to incorporate gaming to incentivize and facilitate writing and adding stories to the site.
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Collaborate with Dr. Victor Francone of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine on educational materials to teach medical students DNA replication.
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Past Collaboration Opportunities
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Game Lab IV: Team Projects (GDD 311) provides students with an experiential learning opportunity by building a game for a client or for publication. Students work in teams to build working prototypes and manage the life cycle of the game development process including troubleshooting, playtesting, usability testing and revisions.
Recently, students worked with the Regional Water Authority to create an animated 3D visualization of the renovation of Lake Whitney Dam.
Game Design & Development faculty help prepare students for their careers. With connections in the industry, professors assist students with securing internships and hands-on learning opportunities.
Internships
Apprenticeship
Quinnipiac eSports is a competitive program that participates in the MAAC and NECC eSports Leagues. The team has won the MAAC Championships in Super Smash Bros. four years in a row (2022-2025), the Rocket League team won the MAAC Championship in 2024 and 2025, and the Valorant team won the MAAC Championship in 2023.
Video game design is a fundamentally interdisciplinary creative activity that includes art, narrative, programming, physics, understanding of game mechanics and imagination. Games that take inspiration from historically important places, events and people can educate players while providing them with deeply immersive memorable environments that allows them to understand history as lived experience.
A recent section of Special Topics in Game Design (GDD 175), Assassin’s Creed II in Florence: Creating Games Grounded in Art, Engineering, and History, involved students examining the process of creating a history-based game through analysis of the Assassin’s Creed II game set in Florence, Italy. Students studied the environments, characters and storylines in the game and then traveled to Florence to consider how the game creators built on and modified historical elements to create a hugely successful game.
Students produced their own new game idea based on elements of Florentine history that they discovered through research and travel.
Quinnipiac students have the unique opportunity to spend a semester in Los Angeles learning from industry professionals and interning at leading companies in film, television, new media and more.
The Quinnipiac University in Los Angeles program gives you the opportunity to live, work and learn in the heart of America’s entertainment industry. Los Angeles is home to the “Big 5” film studios, 10 professional sports franchises, major broadcast news network bureaus — including ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — and a media market that reaches more than 5 million people daily.
Number of internship opportunities available to our students in the U.S. and abroad.
Quinnipiac students excel as interns, new hires, managers and executives in almost every industry. Gather real-world data about starting salaries, hiring trends and in-demand skills to inform your decision-making and put you on a path to success.
With an abundance of career-focused information and resources, the career advisers within the College of Arts & Sciences support students as they expand their professional networks and attract the attention of prestigious employers.
iQ, Quinnipiac University’s holistic approach to career development and experiential learning, surrounds every individual with a personalized plan that maximizes their time at Quinnipiac. The powerhouse of iQ, our Career and Experiential Learning Lab is the physical space where students and advisers bridge the gap between college and career.
Studying and working outside the classroom challenges you — and changes you. These experiences, from competitions and capstones to study abroad opportunities and service outlets, make you more confident, more independent and better prepared for whatever profession you pursue.
Our undergraduate admissions counselors are here to answer any questions you may have and help you navigate the application process.