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Game Art & Animation Curriculum

Game Art & Animation professionals must possess multiple skills: the ability to adapt to new technology; the ability to synthesize trends, theories, and movements in the development of new ideas; time-management skills; and how to write effectively.

Our Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to get a head start on these skills by starting your Game Art & Animation classes in your first semester. By the time you finish your first year, you will have taken upward of five courses related to your major!

Game Art & Animation Curriculum 2013-14

First Year

First Semester
Concepts of the Self (COR 110)
Rhetoric I (COR 115)
Math Elective (MTH XXX)
Visual Digital Fundamentals (GDD 111)
Game History & Development (EGD 100)

Second Semester
Concepts of Community (COR 120)
Rhetoric II (COR 125)
Art History (ART 120)
Introduction to Game Art and Animation (EGD 115)
Anatomy and Perspective Drawing (ART 135)

Second Year

First Semester
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Drawing for Game Development (EGD 225)
Introduction to 3D Art (EGD 215)
Digital Interactive Design (GDD 212)

Second Semester
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Choose 200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Game Production I (EGD 220)
3D Modeling I (EGD 235)
Foundations of Concept Painting (EGD 245)

Third Year

First Semester
Global Studies I: Technology & Development (COR 310)
Global Studies II: Human Rights (COR 320)
3D Animation (EGD 335) OR 3D Modeling II (EGD 315) OR Digital 2D Motion Graphics (GDD 311)
Specialization Elective
Specialization Elective

Second Semester
International Cultural Studies (COR 330)
International Cultural Studies (COR 330)
Game Production II (EGD 320)
Specialization Elective
Specialization Elective

Fourth Year

First Semester
College Capstone (Game Development Capstone) (CCC 410)
Natural Science Elective with Lab (SCI XXX)
Small Group Communications (COM 230)
Specialization Elective

Second Semester
Senior Production (EGD 420)
Senior Portfolio: Art & Animation (EGD 415)
Communication and Ethics (COM 220)
General Elective
General Elective