Plan of Study

Animation And Visual Effects, BS

Fall 1st Year

CGT 11200 - Sketching For Visualization And Communication
CGT 11800 - Fundamentals Of Imaging Technology
CGT 12300 - Animation Foundations
CGT 14100 - Internet Foundations Technologies And Development
MA 15800 - Precalculus- Functions And Trigonometry

Total: 15 Credits

Spring 1st Year

CGT 11600 - Geometric Modeling For Visualization And Communication
CGT 17208 - User Experience Design Studio I: Fundamentals
CGT 24100 - Introduction To Computer Animation
CGT 27000 - Introduction To Data Visualization
MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I

Total: 15 Credits

Fall 2nd Year

SCLA 10100 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity ♦ or
SCLA 10200 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World critical
CGT 14700 - Visual Effects Introduction
CGT Entertainment Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Human Cultures: Humanities Core - Credit Hours: 3.00
Technical Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Total: 15 Credits

Spring 2nd Year

CGT 20500 - Portfolio Review
CGT 25001 - Computer Graphics Professional Practices I
PHYS 22000 - General Physics
SCLA 10200 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World ♦ or
SCLA 10100 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity critical
CGT Entertainment Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Total: 14 Credits

Fall 3rd Year

CGT 44200 - Production For Computer Animation
CGT Entertainment Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Science Core - Credit Hours: 3.00
Technical Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
IET 31600 - Statistical Quality Control or
PSY 20100 - Introduction To Statistics In Psychology or
STAT 22500 - Introduction To Probability Models or
STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods or
STAT 35000 - Introduction To Statistics

Total: 15 Credits

Spring 3rd Year

CGT 30505 - Portfolio II
CGT 44200 - Production For Computer Animation
CGT Entertainment Selective - Credit Hours:  3.00
Humanities Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Science Core - Credit Hours: 3.00
CGT Global Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00

Total: 15 Credits

Fall 4th Year

CGT 41101 - Contemporary Problems In Applied Computer Graphics I
CGT Entertainment Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Elective - Credit Hours: 2.00
Technical Elective - Credit Hours:  3.00
Humanities Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Science, Technology, and Society Core - Credit Hours: 3.00

Total: 16 Credits

Spring 4th Year

CGT 40500 - Senior Portfolio Review
CGT 41201 - Contemporary Problems In Applied Computer Graphics II
CGT 45001 - Computer Graphics Professional Practices II
Technical Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Elective - Credit Hours: 3.00
ENGL 20500 - Introduction To Creative Writing or
ENGL 30400 - Advanced Composition or
ENGL 41900 - Multimedia Writing or
ENGL 42000 - Business Writing or
ENGL 42100 - Technical Writing

Total: 15 Credits

Notes:

♦ The course is considered critical. A Critical Course is one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.

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