Academic Calendar 2024-2025

Animation (ANIM)

ANIM 200  Introduction to Animation  Units: 3.00  
This course offers a historical overview of animation practices and an introduction to animation theory. The course covers key developments in independent and commercial animation since the birth of the form and offers critical engagement with emerging voices in the field of animation studies.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Devise research methods informed by understanding of animation techniques and history.
  2. Develop skills in fundamental techniques of animation.
  3. Engage in animation criticism informed by historical knowledge and exposure to the most recent achievements in the field.
  4. Understand techniques and principles germane to the illusion of movement.
  5. Investigate topics of interest within animation history.
  
ANIM 201  Animation Festival Programming  Units: 3.00  
This experiential learning course takes students on a field trip to North America's largest animation festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, as a case study in September. Following the trip, the students will conceptualize, develop, curate, and execute their own small student-run animation festival.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $400.
NOTE Students will be given a grade of Pass/Fail for work done.
Learning Hours: 108 (12 Lecture, 48 Group Learning, 24 Off-Campus Activity, 24 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or ([FILM 110/6.0 or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0] and permission of the Department).  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Work with a large team in committees to curate a small film festival from start to finish.
  2. Communicate in a professional manner with invited artists and audiences.
  3. Design and execute a public event, including marketing materials, in collaboration with a group.
  4. Develop community engagement opportunities through targeted outreach initiatives.
  5. Manage technical aspects of collecting and preparing works for public screening.
  
ANIM 400  Special Topics in Animation  Units: 3.00  
An advanced course in developing expertise through research and/or praxis in specialized areas of animation production and studies.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan).  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Understand animation’s complex status within the broader landscape of film and media through engagement with contemporary debates in animation studies and classroom dialogue.
  2. Gain familiarity with the variety of cultures surrounding animated media through professional networking and experiential learning opportunities in the animation industry, festival circuit, and contemporary art venues.
  3. Develop specific technical skills in traditional animation, 2D and 3D digital animation, and interactive technologies, through rigorous practice in filmmaking, multi-modal art-making and other forms of artistic inquiry employing specialised animation techniques and tools.
  4. Engage in critical self-reflection and peer-critique through dialogue and writing, in an environment that encourages the use animation as a platform for discussion among peers.
  5. Interrogate issues pertinent to the social context of animation production, such as labour conditions, economic contexts, transnational exchanges, race and gender representation and authorship through reading and analysis of animation history and studies texts.
  6. Gain awareness of current and developing criticisms of established norms in the field, through reflective engagement with reclaimative and political artworks by next-generation, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ voices in contemporary independent animation.