Christian McCrea

Christian McCrea

2011
Games Program, RMIT

Alternative Animation
3rd Year      (Practice)

Narrative and Communication
2nd Year      (Practice) 

2007-2010
Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology

Texts and Contexts: Media Literature Film
1^st Year                    (Cultural studies)

Interactive Game Structures                                                 
1^st Year                    (Game design and history)

Cinema Studies
2^nd Year (Film theory and history) 

Business of Games                                                                                 
2^nd Year                   (Industry models and history)

Writing for Interactive Narrative                                           
2^nd Year                   (Game writing creativity)

Information Society: A Global Perspective                            
3^rd Year                   (Global media models)

Interactive Evaluation                                                             
3^rd Year                   (Studio arts group practice)

Games and Interactivity Project                                            
3^rd Year                   (Year-long production studio)

New Media: The Telecommunications Revolution                               
3^rd Year                   (Media theory)

User Experience Design                                                          
3^rd Year + MA          (Design practice)

+ Other Academic Experience: Honours supervision (by thesis and by project); Honours assessment; co-ordination of Honours, MA and PhD research activities; Maintenance and development of e-learning tools (Webraft, Blackboard, LMS); special web projects; extensive administrative experience.

+ Guest Lectures: LaTrobe University Creative Industries MA Series.

2003-2007
University of Melbourne

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema                          
2^nd and 3^rd Year       (Mainstream film aesthetics)

Game Studies            
2^nd and 3^rd Year       (Game theory, context, history)

The Entertainment Experience                               
2^nd and 3^rd Year       (Spectatorship culture)

Surrealism and the Cinema                                    
2^nd and 3^rd Year (Surrealist art cinema)

Introduction to Film Theory                                         
1^st Year                    (Cinema theory and research)

Introduction to Hollywood and Art Cinema                 
1st Year                   (Cinema history and style)

+ Guest Lectures; Digital Art and Games Seminar Series, Creative Media, R.M.I.T Masters of Cinema Management Seminar Series, Cinema Studies, University of Melbourne; Media Future and New Technologies (2^nd and 3^rd Year), Media and Communication, University of Melbourne.

+ Guest Lectures: LaTrobe University Creative Industries MA Series.