SFU Graduate Studies

A group of seven grad students from the Centre for Digital Media will launch their first mobile game, Crash Craving, for iPad and iPhone on July 15. Team members are Shahrzad Aghasharifianesfahani, Carmen Chow, Mohamed El-Eryan, Airlia Hansen, Jeffrey Lane, Nickolas Marouhos, and Alice Tai.

Digital Touch Games is formed by a group of seven graduate students from the Centre for Digital Media as part of their final pitch project. As a multidisciplinary team, they have collaborated together to develop the concept all the way through production and polish. Guiding them was Ashley Blacquiere, an experienced game designer and fellow alumni, as well as various industry consultants. The team was excited about attending the Game Developer’s Conference 2011 in San Francisco this Spring and showcasing their game at the Centre for Digital Media booth.

Here’s a sneak peek at the game trailer.

Crash Craving Announcement Trailer from Digital Touch Games on Vimeo.

• SFU’s Centre for Digital Media (SFU Calendar: Master of Digital Media Program)
• Crash Craving website and team bios
• Crash Craving twitter feed
• Crash Craving Facebook page

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The MA in Applied Legal Studies program has received a 2011 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education.

The prestigious award was presented at the association’s national conference in Toronto to John Whatley, the CODE program director who received the award on behalf of SFU’s School of Criminology, Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) and, in particular, all the people responsible for the design, implementation and continuing delivery of the program.

Kristy Martin, who completed the program in 2011, says that the innovative delivery of the program was essential: “My favourite experience in this program was e-live, which provided a more interactive learning opportunity without the need for in class attendance. That allowed those of us who do not live in Vancouver an opportunity to have lectures from our professors and to interact with our fellow students.”

Successful completion of the program is required become a Notary Public in BC: BC Notaries Education brochure (PDF).

• MA in Applied Legal Studies
• Society of Notaries Public of BC

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SFU’s graduate students and faculty member Ken Lertzman were mentioned in the Queen Charlotte Islands Observer as they finished up their three-week field course in Haida Gwaii. The paper noted that the group of sixteen students worked on “projects as far ranging as the growth patterns of monumental cedars to tourist profiles of hikers and Haida Gwaii visitors.”

Their work there was in collaboration with the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society.

For more information on the field study, contact Dr. Ken Lertzman in the School of Resource and Environmental Management.

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SFU’s Beedie School of Business has partnered with three other North and South American universities to create the Americas MBA for Executives. This part-time 2-year program will begin in fall 2011. Classes take place on Fridays and Saturdays in downtown Vancouver as students are expected to be working full-time. In the second year, students will have residencies throughout the partner institutions:

• FIA Business School, Fundação Instituto De Administração, São Paulo, Brazil (Residency October 19-27, 2012)
• ITAM, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico (Residency February 1-9, 2013)
• Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Residency August 17- 25 , 2012)
• Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (Residency April 12-20, 2013)

Full tuition is $47,500 and includes all course materials, Friday night accommodation downtown, meals on class days, and off-site orientation and workshops. (US students will pay about $100,000 each.)

• Upcoming information sessions for the Beedie School of Business
• Profile of the new program in the Vancouver Sun
• SFU Business blog post: “SFU launches Americas MBA program with top business schools“
• SFU press release: “New MBA program provides international experience“

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