If you've requested admission to the Art Major on your application form, applicants must successfully pass a portfolio review by the Art Department’s faculty.
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Art Degree (B.A.), Animation Concentration
Part of the
Art Department in the
School of Education, Arts, Communication, and Humanities
Portfolio Review:
Overview
For Art majors interested in a career in animation or preparation for graduate study in animation, the Animation Concentration (18 additional credits) offers broad-based training in this field of art.
The Animation Concentration exposes students to a wide range of contemporary and conventional techniques.
Topics:
- documentary animation
- character animation
- stop motion
- digitally generated animation
- and other emerging technologies
The concentration culminates in a project consisting of an animated film as well as a portfolio presenting the students’ professional and creative work in the field.
Requirements
Learning Outcomes
- Developed capacity for critical, creative, investigative, and conceptual thinking.
- Ability to identify and solve visual and conceptual problems.
- Ability to present and communicate effectively, creatively, and critically across a range of form and media
- Generate a personal focus and contribute an independent voice to the world
- Be ready to work as professionals in art education; art history; design; fine arts; illustration and animation
- Refer to the fullest range of historical and contemporary art and design sources from across cultures and time
- Apply a wide range of research methods and technologies in gathering and analyzing information
- Engage effectively in individual and/or collaborative approaches to work