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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.