HISTORY OF THE ANIMATED FILM

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major studios, directors, technologies and techniques shaping film, television, and avant-garde animation Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Compare the history and practice of animation in different cultural, commercial, and artistic contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Conduct close analysis of character-animation techniques on a frame-by-frame level Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain strategies of "limited animation" as a resource for production efficiency and artistic stylization Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Articulate relationships between industrial configuration, technology, technique, and style in animation Audience: Graduate 6. Examine and evaluate the academic literature on animation history, criticism, and theory and discern opportunities for fruitful scholarly contribution Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major studios, directors, technologies and techniques shaping film, television, and avant-garde animation Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Compare the history and practice of animation in different cultural, commercial, and artistic contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Conduct close analysis of character-animation techniques on a frame-by-frame level Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain strategies of "limited animation" as a resource for production efficiency and artistic stylization Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Articulate relationships between industrial configuration, technology, technique, and style in animation Audience: Graduate 6. Examine and evaluate the academic literature on animation history, criticism, and theory and discern opportunities for fruitful scholarly contribution Audience: Graduate