Media Arts, Animation Concentration

Location(s): Edinboro Campus

The degree in Media Arts builds on studio fundamentals to explore Animation, Digital Filmmaking, and Photography. Course design balances competitive industry standards with traditional practice drawn from the study of World Cinema. A concentration in Animation covers hand-drawn and computer-generated animation, stop-motion, storyboarding, character design, and visual development. Practical projects drive a robust, four-year, 120-credit curriculum.

Advisement Sheet

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate a high level of proficiency with the primary material, tools, technique, and technology used in their concentration area supplimented by expereience with other media.
Students fully investigate in their work conceptual issues and expressive potential of their medium.
Students will integrate aesthetic principles in the development of their own artwork.
Students will recognize that the making and study of art can be approached from a variety of perspectives.
Students defend meaningful interpretations and critical evaluations about their own artworks and the works of other artists both orally and in writing.
Students will construct informed discussion of art as an essential component of viewing, producing, and evaluating art.
Students will explain cultural and historical contexts surrounding works of art in general and in their field of study.
Students will conclude that art communicates, challenges and shapes cultural and societal values.
Students will reframe their practices through experiementation.
Students will organize and produce a resume, a written statement about, and an appropriate visual documentation of their work.

Curriculum Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 42 credits in advanced coursework per the PennWest graduation requirements policy.

General Education

At least two disciplines must be represented within each of the following areas: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Tech. For example: Students cannot have all courses with a prefix of BIOL in Natural Sciences and Tech. You must take courses from at least two different discipline areas (ie. BIOL and CHEM).

Oral Communication - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Written Communication - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Quantitative Reason - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Technological Literacy - ART 1300 - Digital Art Foundations Credit Hours: 3
Arts and Humanities - ARTH 1301 - Global Art History to 1300 Credit Hours: 3
OR
Arts and Humanities - ARTH 1302 - Global Art History since 1300 Credit Hours: 3
Arts and Humanities - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Arts and Humanities - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Social Sciences - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Social Sciences - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Social Sciences - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Natural Sciences and Tech - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Natural Sciences and Tech - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Natural Sciences and Tech - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Student Elective Credit Hours: 3

Competencies

Quantitative Applications - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Applied Methodologies - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Intercultural Fluency - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Ethical Reasoning - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Information Literacy - Any Course Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive - Any Course Credit Hours: 6

Keystone Experience - Take one of the following courses.
ART 4101 - Animation Production Credit Hours: 3 TO 6
ART 4001 - Animation Portfolio Prep Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Major

Required Major Courses

ART 1100 - 2D Design Credit Hours: 3
ART 1200 - 3 Dimensional Design Credit Hours: 3
ART 1106 - Drawing I Credit Hours: 3
ART 1206 - Drawing II Credit Hours: 3
ART 2001 - 3D Animation Principles Credit Hours: 3
ART 2101 - 2D Animation Principles Credit Hours: 3
Media Arts Cognate - ART 2005 - Introduction to Photography Credit Hours: 3
OR
Media Arts Cognate - ART 2105 - Introduction to Digital Filmmaking Credit Hours: 3
2D Studio Art Elective - ART 2012 - Printmaking I Credit Hours: 3
OR
2D Studio Art Elective - ART 2011 - Painting I Credit Hours: 3
3D Studio Art Elective - Select From:
ART 2010 - Introduction to Jewelry and Metals Credit Hours: 3
ART 2004 - Ceramics I Credit Hours: 3
ART 2013 - Sculpture I Credit Hours: 3
ART 2014 - Wood Furniture I Credit Hours: 3
Studio Arts Cognate - Select From:
ART 4106 - Human Anatomy Drawing Credit Hours: 3
ART 3611 - Space and Perspective Credit Hours: 3
ART 3511 - Digital Drawing and Painting Credit Hours: 3
ART 3309 - Graphic Novel Art and Design Credit Hours: 3
ART 3111 - Painting II Credit Hours: 3
ART 3113 - Sculpture Figure Modeling Credit Hours: 3
ARTH 3540 - Cinema History Credit Hours: 3
Any 3000-Level or higher Art History Credits: 3
Any 3000-Level or higher Art History Credits: 3

Concentration Electives

3000-Level Animation Elective - Select 3: Credits / Units: 9
ART 3001 - 3D Modeling and Rigging Credit Hours: 3
ART 3101 - 3D Dynamics and Simulations Credit Hours: 3
ART 3201 - Animated Performance Credit Hours: 3
ART 3301 - Animation Pipleline Credit Hours: 3
ART 3401 - Storyboard and Character Design Credit Hours: 3
ART 3501 - Stop Motion and Exp Animation Credit Hours: 3
ART 3601 - 2D Digital Animation Credit Hours: 3
ART 3701 - Action Analysis Animation Credit Hours: 3
Select 2 Animation Courses from the following: Credits / Units: 6
ART 3915 - 2D Animation Special Topics Credit Hours: 3
ART 3916 - 3D Animation Special Topics Credit Hours: 3
ART 4201 - Digital Visual Effects Credit Hours: 3
ART 4005 - Digital Audio-Moving Image Credit Hours: 3
ART 4008 - Motion Design Credit Hours: 3
ART 4950 - Internship BFA Credit Hours: 3 TO 15

Required Concentration Courses

Complete 6 credits of one of the following, or 3 credits of each.
ART 4001 - Animation Portfolio Prep Credit Hours: 3 TO 6
ART 4101 - Animation Production Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Major Electives

Any ART, ARED, or ARTH course Credits: 3
Any ART, ARED, or ARTH course Credits: 3
Any ART, ARED, or ARTH course Credits: 3
Any ART, ARED, or ARTH course Credits: 3
Any ART, ARED, or ARTH course Credits: 3

Total Credits: 120

Depending on the program of study, students may need to complete additional credits to ensure the total credit hour requirement is met.

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