游戏s/动画

For incoming students, there is a new major structure starting in the Fall of 2022:

的 学校 of 媒体 Arts and 研究 will offer a new undergraduate degree in 动画. This degree will provide students with the skills to design, 创建, and engage with technologies to produce digital animation content across diverse storytelling platforms. In addition to the updated major, 媒体 Arts and 研究 will have a new Advanced 动画 Lab available for students to access in Fall 2022.

的 麦克卢尔 学校 will be offering a new undergraduate degree in Virtual Reality and 游戏 发展. This degree will provide students with the skills to design, develop and manage digital games and produce immersive experiences using tools like VR, AR and spatial audio.

For students enrolled prior to Fall 2022 in the 游戏s and 动画 major, please know that none of these changes will impact your required courses to graduate or the degree that you will be conferred upon graduation. 

奥运会 & 动画(G&A) emphasis area encourages students to explore the production of computer animation and digital games while also emphasizing creative decision making, storytelling and experiential learning. Students can choose from the animation core or the games core, offered in in partnership with the J. Warren 麦克卢尔 学校 of Emerging Communication Technologies. 游戏s classes provide the opportunity to work through the whole game pipeline from level design to asset creation to playable game. 动画 students have the opportunity to pursue animation for games, VR/AR, and film/television. G&A cognate area allows students to take production courses outside the games or animation cores, broadening their skills while enhancing the creative process.

Students may choose from the following classes:

MDIA Foundation/Core

• MDIA 1010 - Evolution of 媒体
• MDIA 1020 - 媒体 & Creative Process
• MDIA 2010 - 媒体 Analysis and Criticism
• MDIA 2011 - Business of 媒体

Global Impact of 媒体 (选择一个)

• MDIA 3150 - Global 媒体 Systems
• MDIA 3172 - Public 媒体
• MDIA 4015 - 媒体 & 发展
• MDIA 4140 - New 媒体 and Communication Technologies
• MDIA 4141 - Satellite 媒体 and Communications
• MDIA 4170 - 媒体 and the Muslim World
• MDIA 4176 - Technology, Communication, and Culture 

Take either the 动画 Core or the 游戏的核心

动画 Core

• MDIA 1350 - 动画 Foundation
• MDIA 2500 - 动画 I
• MDIA 3500 - 动画 II (3D)
• MDIA 4500 动画 III

游戏的核心

• MDIA 1350 - 动画 Foundation
• MDIA 2401 - Digital 游戏 Design
• MDIA 3401 - 游戏 发展 I
• MDIA 4401 - 游戏 发展 II

游戏s and 动画 Elective (choose one course)

• MDIA 2701 - Visual Storytelling
• MDIA 3160 - History of Computer Graphics
• MDIA 4801 - Motion Graphics
• MDIA 4905 - Special Topics in 游戏s & 动画

顶石 (choose one course)

• COMM 4023 - Storytelling, Technology and Digital 媒体 in 的me parks (Disney)
• MDIA 4405 - Digital 游戏s 顶石

同源

Complete three additional courses in MDIA, ITS, ECT, or COMM at the 2000, 3000 or 4000 level.