Animation
Minor
About this program
The Minor in Animation helps you explore creative storytelling through motion. You learn drawing, stop‑motion, 2D and 3D digital, and mixed‑media techniques. You craft short animated projects and build a strong technical base. You study animation styles, tools, and how they connect to art and culture. This minor stays open to all, lets you grow your skills, and shows you how to bring ideas to life through movement.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Scope
Open to all majors, the Animation Minor has a production focus in creative storytelling, social issue documentary, artistic experimentation and visual effects. Students make short animations using techniques like drawing, stop-motion, mixed media, and digital 2D, 3D and visual effects. Students gain a foundation in animation principles and pre-production, and practice the techniques used in cinematic fine arts, gaming, streaming and entertainment media, scientific and humanities fields. The Animation Society student club welcomes all students.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Acquire basic skills in the formal and critical analysis of animation (including representations of race, class, gender and sexuality), focused by the analysis of representative works from a range of periods and cultures.
- Gain basic understanding of the relation of animation to other arts, to the development of new technologies, and to the industrial-social basis of domestic and international cultural production.
- Acquire the basic technical skills necessary for cinematic expression with animation.
- Develop basic skills in the organization and creation of meaningful form and content in animated works.