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Accounting
  

  • ACTG 210 - Introduction to Financial Accounting

    Prerequisite, MATH 109 , or MATH 110 , or equivalent. An introduction to the financial accounting process, the concepts of asset/liability valuation and income measurement, and the preparation and interpretation of financial statements. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 211 - Introduction to Managerial Accounting

    Prerequisite, ACTG 210 . An introduction to the use of accounting information in the planning, control and decision-making functions of management. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 312 - Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis

    (Same as FIN 312 .) Prerequisite, ACTG 211 . Analysis of accounting and tax information for business decisions. Financial statements analysis. Pro forma financial statements. Cash flow analysis. Credit evaluation. Additional financial and tax reporting issues including reporting in multinational environments. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 320 - Cost Accounting I

    Prerequisite, ACTG 211 . Theory of cost accounting and cost control for manufacturing and service type entities. Topics include job order and process costing, accounting for by-products and joint costs and development of a master budget. Letter grade. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 321 - Cost Accounting II

    Prerequisite, ACTG 320 . Theory of cost accounting and cost control relating to materials, labor, and overhead; variance analysis; management utilization of cost information in overall evaluation of business performance. Activity-based accounting, break-even and variable costing techniques, and accounting for non-routine business decisions. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 330 - Intermediate Financial Accounting I

    Prerequisite, ACTG 210 . A comprehensive examination of financial accounting and reporting. Topics include the conceptual framework, financial accounting systems, preparation and presentation of financial statements, revenue recognition, cash and receivables, inventory, plant assets and intangibles. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 331 - Intermediate Financial Accounting II

    Prerequisites, ACTG 211 , ACTG 330 . A continuation of ACTG 330 . Topics include bonds and other long-term liabilities; leases, pensions and other post-retirement benefits; deferred income taxes; stockholders’ equity; earnings per share; investments in securities of other companies, and a review of the cash flow statement. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 339 - Accounting Information Systems

    Prerequisite, ACTG 330  or consent of instructor. Accounting information systems and the use of information technology for decision making, including controlling risks within business processes. Emphasis on sources and types of information and the use of analytical tools in solving accounting management problems. Letter grade. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 440 - Accounting for Investments and Consolidations

    Prerequisite, ACTG 331 , or equivalent. Comprehensive coverage of accounting for investments and complex entities including mergers and acquisitions and consolidated financial statements. Letter grade. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 441 - Not-For Profit and Government Accounting, and International Accounting

    Prerequisite, ACTG 331  or equivalent. Focus on not-for-profit and government entities, accounting for multinational transactions including foreign currency translation, international accounting standards, partnerships and trusts. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 450 - Individual Taxation

    Prerequisite, ACTG 211 . Federal income tax related primarily to individuals. Included are concepts of income, deductions, credits, and capital gains and losses. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 451 - Taxation of Corporations and Other Entities

    Prerequisite, ACTG 211 . Federal income tax law related to partnerships, corporations, Subchapter S corporations, and an overview of federal estate and gift taxes. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 460 - Auditing

    Prerequisites, ACTG 330 , ACTG 339 . Auditing theory issues examined are the purpose of auditing, ethics, legal liability, the auditor’s opinion and alternative forms of reporting. The audit practice issues covered include: evidential matter, audit planning and documentation, review of internal control, use of statistical methods, and auditing in the computer environment. Letter grade. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 461 - Accounting Analytics

    Prerequisites, accounting major, ACTG 339  and ACTG 460  or equivalent. An introduction to how to leverage SQL and statistical analysis to address problems/applications in financial and managerial accounting, auditing, taxation, and accounting information systems. The primary tool used will be R, with optional use of Alteryx. Letter grade. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 496 - Special Topics in Accounting

    In-depth study of a specific area; content of course determined by student interest and instructor. Course titles and prerequisites may vary. This course may be repeated for credit with a different topic. Some courses may require student lab fees. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ACTG 499 - Individual Study

    Prerequisite, approval of petition. For students who wish to pursue a special area of study not included in the curriculum. Maximum of 6 credits. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits

Africana Studies
  

  • AFST 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies

    This course provides students with an introduction to Africana Studies. The course is designed to examine the histories, literatures, aesthetics, spiritual, cultural, and political traditions of people of African descent. Students will consider the historic and contemporary experiences of African descendants in the Americas, particularly the United States, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Then the course turns to considerations of the lesser-known histories of African descendants to Asia via the Pacific rim and consider the ways in which Black internationalism, and varying concepts of Blackness itself, may look different if students center their gaze on the trans-Pacific world, and apart from Paul Gilroy’s “Black Atlantic” paradigm. Alongside these concerns, will be a focus on Continental Africa, and how diasporic members imagine and encounter Africa, what constitutes a diaspora, and what makes Africans and people of African descent around the world an African Diaspora. As an introductory subject, this course is not meant to be a sweeping account of all related works associated with the geographical locales of the African Diaspora but rather, a critical analysis of the literature and artistic works that expands existing debates, encourages dialogue, and challenge students to think creatively about the changing contours and focal points of Africana Studies. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AFST 303 - “Mixed Race” Identities

    Prerequisite, AFST 101  or consent of instructor. Some key questions guiding this course include the following: What is “race,” and what does it mean to be “mixed”? What is the historical situation and tension of “mixing” in the United States, and why is it significant? How do such issues vary from national to transnational contexts? Can one exist in two or more categories at the same time? Why do categories matter? Isn’t everyone “mixed” somehow? Where do you fit in? In examining these questions, this course introduces the study of ‘multiracial identity’ and the ways that it has been experienced, represented and contested in the U.S. and international communities.  Issues of history, culture, and activism as they relate to various multiracial communities will be studied. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, a variety of media in the form of art, print and film will be examined. Students will be exposed to a range of voices from scholars working in disciplines including, Africana Studies, Women’s Studies, Asian American Studies, Anthropology, and Visual Arts Studies. The course will begin by focusing on the experiences of multiracial people in the U.S., but will also examine the lived realities of international populations, including the Amerasian community (a population born from the union of American military men and Asian women) living in various parts of Asia and the Pacific. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AFST 305 - Afro-Latinx in the Americas

    Prerequisite, AFST 101  or HUM 102  or consent of instructor. This course will explore being Black in Latin America and the experiences of Afro-Latinx communities in the United States from periods of enslavement to the present. The course addresses the intersection of race and ethnicity, how identity formation shapes Afro-Latinx racialization, and highlights the relevance of historical context in understanding contemporary race relations. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AFST 315 - Racialized Punishment

    Prerequisite, AFST 101  or HUM 102  or consent of instructor. This course will cover how criminalization impacts racialized groups in the criminal justice system, immigration detention, and other institutions. Historically grounded anti-Black sentiments contribute to constructions of criminality and deviance. Focus is given to punishment practices and social movement efforts within a United States and Borderlands racial context. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AFST 320 - Black Feminisms

    (Same as WGST 320 .) Prerequisite, AFST 101  or WGST 101  or WMST 101 or consent of instructor. This course explores key issues, debates, and the range of ideas used by Black women, which examine features of Black feminist thought. This course is designed to encourage an exploration of various methods including video, film and others. It will introduce and familiarize students with the contributions of Black women in the African Diaspora and will commit to linking Black feminist thought with popular culture. Central discussions will be focused on understanding intersectionality and how the experiences of Black women have rendered visible the interlocking nature of race, gender, class and sexuality. Beginning in the 19th century and into the 21st century, students will engage with selected works of African American women’s scholarship and enter conversations which foreground Black women’s aesthetics, cultural, spiritual, erotic, and political traditions. In addition, the course will survey scholarship, which travels internationally as it interacts with the works of Black women and women of color outside of the United States. Rather than attempt a definitive history, the course will concentrate on works that map out the broader linkages of a Black feminism(s), which extends across disciplines and expands territorially. Letter grade. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AFST 333 - Mapping the Black Pacific(s): Afro-Asian Encounters

    Prerequisite, AFST 101  or consent of instructor. This seminar investigates the emergent concept of the Black Pacific(s), an area that scholars across multiple disciplines in recent years have begun to shed new light on. It seeks to examine the histories of African descendants to Asia via the Pacific rim and consider the ways in which Black internationalism, settler colonialism, militarism, interracial encounters and varying concepts of Blackness itself, may look different if scholars center their gaze on the trans-Pacific world. The term “Mapping” in the course title is in response to the often-overlooked encounters between peoples of African and Asian descent and the lengthy presence of African descendants in this region. It also suggests a different kind of trajectory that might alter one’s understanding of the Black Diaspora, Pacific indigeneity, and Asian identity in a global age. The course begins by focusing on the trans-Pacific world, but  then delves into Afro-Asian encounters in the United States and in international settings. The course will consider how the meeting of Afro-Asia has given rise to an innovative field of study, which examines relationships across borders and allows for the expansion of both the conceptual meaning of a map and the knowledge that it charts. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AFST 390 - Internship

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Internship related to field of Africana Studies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
  

  • AFST 399 - Individual Study

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Directed research with faculty advisor in area studies of Africana Studies. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 3-6 credits
  

  • AFST 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in Africana Studies which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1-6 credits

American Studies
  

  • AMST 102 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

    This course offers a history of Asians in America, examining different immigrant groups and their integration into the “American melting pot.” This course is organized around an historical timeline emphasizing 1880 to the present, drawing on public policy and the law (the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese American Internment, Immigration Act of 1924, Affirmative action and others). Discussions will also include the policy and legal decisions (Ozawa v. US 1922 and US v. Thind 1923), culminating in an examination of contemporary issues of racial identity and cultural politics, and understanding the shift from policy to public culture. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 282 - Folklore

    This course is designed to familiarize students with the fundamental perspectives, history, and methods of Folkloristics. This includes oral, social, material, and artistic aspects of folk study. Students will learn how folk culture forms and maintains social, cultural, and subcultural groups and how folklorists choose, gather, classify, measure and write about folklore. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 296 - Indians and Film

    This course is designed to familiarize students with the relationship between American Indians and the history and production of American commercial and artistic film and influences on international film. Students will view films made about, by, and for American Indians and popular audiences while reading articles and chapters from selected works that give background, film theory, and commentary on the continuing phenomenon of Indians in film. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 347 - Topics in Asian American Studies

    Prerequisite, AMST 102 . Topics in Asian American Studies courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest in Asian American studies. Course titles, Prerequisites, and credits may vary. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. Repeatable for credit if the topic is different. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
  

  • AMST 372 - Images of Indians

    This course will explore the artistic, political, folk and scientific images of American Indians as demonstrated in literature, art, anthropology, film and folklore. The course will deconstruct common images in order to see the process that created them and be able to transfer this insight to other groups. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 380 - Chop Suey to the Kogi Taco Truck: Asian American Food and Identity

    Prerequisite, Asian American studies, anthropology minors or consent of instructor. This course offers a history of Asians in America, examining different immigrant groups and their integration into the American food landscape. This course will provide students with history and analysis (and cuisine) of Asia and how it has become distinctly American in an investigation of the dissemination and hybridization of food.  Discussions will reinforce the history of Asians in America culminating in an original research project that analyzes and synthesizes issues of racial identity and cultural politics, through food. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 396 - Indians of California

    This course is designed to familiarize students with the large Native American community located in California, the structure of tribal councils, urban Indian centers, and the role of Native American Studies departments in California. Students will develop insights to historic and continuing Native American social substructure, values, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 397 - Cultural Mythology

    The class will review definitions of folktales focusing upon those classified as myths. Mythology is linked to cultural perceptions, values and cosmology. Cross-cultural study of differing mythologies will enhance student’s appreciation of traditions in literature, oral tradition, and cultural view. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AMST 491a - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity in Asian American Studies

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope within the field of Asian American Studies.  Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. Repeatable for credit if the topic is different. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits

Animation and Visual Effects
  

  • AVE 109 - Fundamental Graphics I for Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisite, animation and visual effects major. An introduction to the fundamentals of graphic imagery, including shapes, forms, structure, composition, value, tone, light and shadow specifically as they apply to the world of animation and visual effects. Students are taught to observe, analyze, and understand and apply these essential components of imagery in preparation for work in animation, character development and production design. Letter grade. Fee: $100. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 120 - Introduction to Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisite, animation and visual effects, or film production major, or game development programming, or production design for film, or visual effects minor, or animation and visual effects, or digital arts cluster. Some sections may be open to non-majors. An introduction to the world of digital imagery, visual effects and animation, focusing on their history, current status, and effect on film, television, and other media and on the issues that relate to the digitalization of our culture such as intellectual property, personal privacy, and related ethical questions. Students will create projects which combine the elements of story with computer generated visual effects. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 202 - 3D Computer Graphics I

    Prerequisites, AVE 120  and animation and visual effects major or visual effects or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. Some sections may be open to non-majors. Students must earn a B- or better in AVE 202 before continuing with coursework in the Animation and Visual Effects major. A basic overview of the tools available in Autodesk’s Maya software package for the creation of 3D digital animation. Topics covered include modeling, character rigging, animation, shading, lighting, rendering and tracking. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 206 - Mechanics of Motion

    Prerequisites, AVE 109  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. Using traditional methods, students will be introduced to the fundamental mechanics of motion, including paths of action, forces, timing, patterns, anticipation, action and counteraction, balance, weight, squash and stretch, primary and secondary action, and overlap. Students will use traditional media including animation drawing boards and “pencil test” software to create frame-by-frame animated motion to learn how to visualize and then represent the action of forms and shapes in motion, and create the illusion of such actions as acceleration, deceleration, collision, anticipation, balance, momentum, and intent. Letter grade. Fee: $300. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 209 - Fundamental Graphics II for Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisites, AVE 109 , animation and visual effects major. Building on the storytelling skills and techniques of Fundamental Graphics for Animation and Visual Effects I, students will learn the essential principles of communication through graphic imagery, including anatomy of the figure, gesture, expression, staging, posing, composition, and the illusion of motion. Letter grade. Fee: $100. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 229 - Experimental Course

    Experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, prerequisites, and credits may vary. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if course content is different. Some courses require student lab fees. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
  

  • AVE 242 - 2D Computer Graphics

    Prerequisite, animation and visual effects major, or game development programming minor, or animation and visual effects, or digital arts cluster. Students are taught the techniques and use of tools for producing art work, both still and moving, and learn the basic concepts of applied 2D graphics and how to apply these concepts in the production of 2D animation within the digital realm. They will also learn techniques that will later be used in 3D Graphics courses. Some sections of this course may be restricted to consent of instructor. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 245 - The Influence of French Animation

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. This course is multi-day intensive travel course to study the profound and exquisite impact of French animation on the animation art form through cultural immersion, study, lectures, and tours of museums, schools, and studios, culminating in attending the oldest and most prestigious animated film festival in the world, Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy in Annecy, France. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 247 - History and Aesthetics of Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisite, Dodge College major, or game development programming minor, or visual effects minor, or animation and visual effects, or digital arts cluster. Some sections may be open to non-majors. A historical survey of animated film and alternative media including 3D cinema, interactive media, immersive media, special effects cinema, and other non-traditional forms that augment and transcend photographic motion pictures. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 249 - Storytelling in Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisites, AVE 247  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects themed inquiry. Animation and Visual Effects majors must pass AVE 249 with a grade of B- or better before continuing on with coursework within the major. An introduction to the principles of story and how stories are created, refined, and presented in the animation and visual effects industry. Students learn about plot, structure, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution, as well as how to tell stories through beat outlines, treatments, scripts, storyboards, and story reels as used in the world of animation and visual effects. Letter grade. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 256A - Beginning Character Animation for 2D

    Prerequisites, AVE 206  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects, or digital arts cluster. For students interested in 2D only. Using 3D CG techniques and/or traditional methodology, this course offers an overview of the basics of figure animation. Using the principles of mechanics of motion, students will learn the basics of biomechanics in the movement of bipedal and quadrapedal bodies. Students will apply their animation, timing and editing skills to develop character performance, creating movement with gesture and expression affected by environment, physical forces, other objects, and characters. Students may only receive credit for either AVE 256A or AVE 256B . Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 256B - Beginning Character Animation for CG

    Prerequisites, AVE 206  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. For students interested in CG only. Using 3D CG techniques and/or traditional methodology, this course offers an overview of the basics of figure animation. Using the principles of mechanics of motion, students will learn the basics of biomechanics in the movement of bipedal and quadrapedal bodies. Students will apply their animation, timing and editing skills to develop character performance, creating movement with gesture and expression affected by environment, physical forces, other objects, and characters. Students may only receive credit for either AVE 256A  or AVE 256B. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 290 - Independent Internship

    Offers students an opportunity to earn credit and learn professional skills “on the job” by working for a studio, network, or production company, etc. A minimum of 40 hours of work for each credit is required. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½-6 credits
  

  • AVE 291 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
  

  • AVE 299 - Individual Study

    Prerequisites, freshman or sophomore standing only and consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of AVE 299, AVE 399 , or AVE 499 . May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
  

  • AVE 302 - 3D Computer Graphics II

    Prerequisites, AVE 202  with B- or better, AVE 249  with B- or better and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. This course begins a detailed overview of the production process used in creating digital character animation. Using the Autodesk Maya software package, students will create an animated project from initial design to final character animation. Areas covered by this class include character modeling, advanced character rigging, character animation techniques, facial animation and soundtrack synchronization. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 310 - Animation and Visual Effects Industry Insiders

    Through screenings, interviews, and discussions, this course explores the work of this semester’s Pankey Artist-in-Residence, a filmmaker working in the realms of animation, visual effects, and/or virtual or augmented reality, as well as that of a variety of well-established guest artists. This exploration compares filmmaking techniques and creative expression across varied genres of television and motion pictures, including episodic programs, animated films, live action/visual effects films, and documentaries. Open to non-majors. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 323 - Color and Design: Principles and Practice

    Prerequisites, AVE 209 , animation and visual effects major. Students will explore the fundamental principles of color and design as they relate to development of visual grammar in both still and motion pictures. The concepts most essential to effective visual communication and expression will be investigated through lectures, and practiced through classroom exercises and assignments. Fee: $100. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 329 - Experimental Course

    Experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, prerequisites, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if course content is different. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
  

  • AVE 339 - Digital Illustration

    Prerequisites, AVE 109 , AVE 120 , AVE 209  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. Students learn the art and technique of matte painting for motion pictures in the digital environment using Adobe Photoshop. Students will learn visual effects secrets used at such leading-edge studios as Industrial Light + Magic. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 354 - Storyboarding and Story Reels

    Prerequisites, AVE 249  with a B- or better, animation and visual effects major. An advanced course in telling stories using the visual mediums of storyboards and story reels. Students will visualize original stories, existing scripts, and visual effects sequences. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 355 - Production Design for Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisites, AVE 249  with a B- or better, AVE 323 , animation and visual effects major. An exploration of how the creation of environments situates characters and becomes a key element in the storytelling process. Going beyond the elements of production design, students working in animation and visual effects create every element of various on-screen environments using both traditional illustration and computer-generated techniques to create context and meaning. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 356A - Intermediate Character Animation for 2D

    Prerequisites, AVE 249  with a B- or better and AVE 256A  or AVE 256B  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. For students interested in 2D only. Building on basic skills and knowledge of 3D production pipeline, this course begins a detailed overview of the production process used in creating digital character animation. Using the Autodesk Maya software package, students will create an animated project from initial design to final character animation. Areas covered by this class include character modeling, advanced character rigging and animation techniques, facial animation, and soundtrack synchronization. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 356B - Intermediate Character Animation for CG

    Prerequisites, AVE 249  with a B- or better and AVE 256A  or AVE 256B  and animation and visual effects major or animation and visual effects or digital arts cluster. Building on basic skills and knowledge of 3D production pipeline, this course begins a detailed overview of the production process used in creating digital character animation. Using the Autodesk Maya software package, students will create an animated project from initial design to final character animation. Areas covered by this class include character modeling, advanced character rigging and animation techniques, facial animation, and soundtrack synchronization. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 357 - Writing for Animation

    Prerequisite, SW 127  or TWP 127  or TWP 128  or SW 227  or AVE 249  and animation and visual effects or screenwriting or television writing and production major. An introduction to the basics of writing, specifically as it pertains to storytelling in the digital arts. By reviewing historical examples and theories of story principles, students learn about plot, structure, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution, then apply this information through critical thinking by telling stories through beats, outlines, treatments, and scripts. This extends to short films, TV writing and feature screenplays, culminating in the creation of an original work indented for the medium of animation. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 360 - Art Direction for Animation and Visual Effects

    Prerequisites, AVE 355 , animation and visual effects major. A continuation of the production design process through the implementation and refinement of concepts into a final style guide. Students will analyze and implement a specific artistic style into locations, characters, props, and background paintings establishing the overall look and feel of a film. 3 credits. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 369 - Visual Effects: Fundamental Techniques and Technologies

    Prerequisites, AVE 120 , AVE 202  and Dodge College major or minor or animation and visual effects themed inquiry. Some sections may be open to non-majors. This course will familiarize the student with the primary software tools used in visual effects production, including MAYA, NUKE, AfterEffects, and Z-Brush, through exercises that demonstrate the predominant visual effects processes. Assignments will include tracking of live action, compositing, digital props, set extensions and environmental modeling and lighting. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 372 - Unreal Engine for Filmmakers

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. This course introduces students to the real-time rendering tools for virtual production found in the Unreal Engine. Students will explore the technical processes used in incorporating the virtual production toolsets for previsualization, environment creation, virtual cameras, real-time lighting, animation, and visual effects. Lectures will introduce the Unreal Engine Technology and demonstrate how it can be leveraged as a tool for filmmaking. Letter grade. This course may be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 379 - Advanced Visual Effects Production and Workflow

    Prerequisite, AVE 369 . In this course, students will learn the software tools and production techniques used for advanced, complex visual effects, from image capture to post-production, including particle systems, digital characters, motion/performance capture and 3D tracking with live action footage. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 385 - Character Design

    Prerequisites, AVE 209 , animation and visual effects major. Students will learn the complex art of creating a thinking, feeling, living animated character for the screen through character designs based on an analysis of the character’s personality, role in the story, and internal and external traits. They will learn to create characters that are technically capable of being manipulated for expressive movement as well as designing for style and designing a character as a member of a cast. Fee: $100. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 386 - Digital Illustration Techniques

    Prerequisite, DCFMA major, or advertising, or visual effects minor. An exploration of the world of digital imagery, visual effects and animation, focusing on the production pipeline, the current status and effect of digital imagery on film, television and other media and on the issues that relate to the digitalization of our culture. Students will create projects which combine the elements of story with computer- generated visual effects. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 392 - Advanced Pre-visualization for Motion Pictures

    Prerequisite, AVE 202  with a B- or better. Students will use advanced CG tools to create preliminary 3D CG representations of environments, visual effects, and motion picture sequences that are visually and technically representative of final production imagery. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 399 - Individual Study

    Prerequisites, junior standing, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of AVE 299 , AVE 399, or AVE 499 . May be repeated for credit. Fee: varies. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
  

  • AVE 402 - 3D Computer Graphics III

    Prerequisites, AVE 302 , animation and visual effects major. A continuation of the digital animation production process begun in AVE 302 . Students will complete an animated project using the Autodesk Maya software package. Advanced shading, lighting, rendering and compositing techniques will be covered. Students will also be introduced to topics such as dynamics, particles, compositing and scripting. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 429 - Experimental Course

    Experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, prerequisites, and credits may vary. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if course content is different. Some courses require student lab fees. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
  

  • AVE 456A - Advanced Character Animation for 2D

    Prerequisites, AVE 356A  or AVE 356B , animation and visual effects major. For students interested in 2D only. This course offers an advanced level of study of the principles of 3-D modeling and animation to prepare students to succeed in the animation or gaming or in the film industry. Students will complete an animated project using the Autodesk Maya software package. Advanced shading, lighting, rendering, and compositing techniques will be covered. Letter grade. This course may be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 456B - Advanced Character Animation for CG

    Prerequisites, AVE 356A  or AVE 356B , animation and visual effects major. For students interested in CG only. This course offers an advanced level of study of the principles of 3-D modeling and animation to prepare students to succeed in the animation or gaming or in the film industry. Students will complete an animated project using the Autodesk Maya software package. Advanced shading, lighting, rendering, and compositing techniques will be covered. Letter grade. This course may be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 457 - Animation Group Project

    Prerequisites, AVE 354 , AVE 385 , animation and visual effects major, junior standing. Students will collaborate in a team to create an animated short film. Students are encouraged to use this group project to demonstrate their strengths in the animation pipeline (i.e. Animation, Pre-production Art (vis dev, background/character design), VFX, etc.) Students will learn how to produce, manage and complete an animated production from start to finish experiencing the animation studio system pipeline as an animation crew member. Students will increase their knowledge of the principles of animation and the overall process of animation production by creating a reel of various assignments designed to address specific aspects of animation. Letter grade. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 469 - On-Set and Post-Production Visual Effects Supervision

    Prerequisites, AVE 379 , animation and visual effects major, or visual effects minor. This course will focus on technical and management skills required of the Visual Effects Supervisor, including on-set data wrangling; budget and schedule creation; previsualization review and application; on-set trouble-shooting; and interaction with the cinematography, production design, editorial and post-production departments for completion and delivery. This course will also focus on the visual effects pipeline: on the interaction of visual effects production with live action and the on-set experience and the use of industry-standard software to develop a visual style for expressing ideas. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 490 - Independent Internship

    Offers students an opportunity to earn credit and learn professional skills “on the job” by working for a studio, network, production company, newsroom, etc. A minimum of 40 hours of work for each credit is required. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½-6 credits
  

  • AVE 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
  

  • AVE 496 - Senior Thesis I: Concept Development

    Prerequisites, AVE 249  with a B- or better, animation and visual effects major. Senior Thesis is a three-semester series of courses in which the student will visualize, prepare and execute the project and materials that will be his or her graduation showcase. In this first course, students will explore and develop the theme for the Senior Thesis project. They will determine the content, refine the story, establish production design, create the story reel and prepare a detailed production plan. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 497 - Senior Thesis II: Pre-Production and Production I

    Prerequisites, AVE 302 , AVE 496 , animation and visual effects major. The second semester in a three-semester capstone series in digital media production. Each student, drawing upon the knowledge and skills developed over the course of the major as well as topics covered in this course, will produce a short film or comparable project worthy of this culminating experience. From script development to final screening, every major aspect of digital media production will be covered. Must be completed before proceeding to AVE 498 . P/NP. Fee: $300. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 498 - Senior Thesis III: Production II and Post-Production

    Prerequisites, AVE 497 , animation and visual effects major. The final semester in a three-semester capstone series in digital media production. Each student, drawing upon the knowledge and skills developed over the course of the major as well as topics covered in this course, will produce a short film or comparable project worthy of this culminating experience. From script development to final screening, every major aspect of digital media production will be covered. Letter grade. Fee: $300. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • AVE 499 - Individual Study

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Designed to meet specific interests which are not provided for by regular curriculum offerings. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 102 - Cultural Anthropology

    The study of how human civilizations adapt to living situations by forming group identity, families, language, and symbols. The examination of how civilizations create world views and concepts of progress, culture, community, and social interaction. Students will explore these questions using models from cultures foreign and familiar. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 201 - Physical Anthropology

    This is an introductory course in genetics, evolutionary theory, and primatology. It includes the study of the primate fossil record, with primary emphasis on human evolution and human variation. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 205 - Language and Culture

    This course critically examines the complex relationship between language and culture. Through the theoretical lens of linguistic anthropology, students will explore how language shapes thought, perception, speech, and cross-cultural communication. Topical areas of ethnographic interest will include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and power. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 211 - Visual Culture

    This course offers a general introduction to cultural studies, semiotics and visual anthropology. Visual material culture, such as art, architecture, performance, film, etc., will serve as the subjects to understand why different cultures produce different types of visual artifacts and what they mean. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 229 - Experimental Course

    This course is designed to provide additional opportunities to explore experimental areas and subjects of special interest in anthropology. Repeatable if course topic is different. (Offered as needed.) 1, 2, 3, or variable credits depending on the subject matter and course demands
  

  • ANTH 291 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
  

  • ANTH 300 - Queer Anthropology

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102 . This course is an overview of the history, theory, research methods, and contemporary ethnographic work foundational to queer anthropology. Students will engage with themes related to gender and sexuality including special emphasis on cross-cultural LGBTQIA+ activism, embodiment, narrative, and representation. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 301 - Ethnographic Fieldwork

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102  or consent of instructor. An introduction to ethnography; this class will teach aspects of field research and data collection through participant observation and interviewing. Students will be taught ethnographic field research methods and writing. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 303 - Abject Bodies

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102  or SOC 101  or WGST 101  or WMST 101 or HUM 205  or consent of instructor. Abjection or “the state of being cast off” resonates with communities that have been neglected, marginalized, maimed, or systematically annihilated through acts of state violence and genocide. This course will explore the feminist underpinnings of Julia Kristeva’s “abjection” and follow its broad theoretical applications within contemporary anthropological and interdisciplinary work. How is systemic violence embodied? To what extent are bodies rendered object of regulation and/or object of destruction? In what way has violence and inequality informed resistance movements and resilience? This course will ask students to consider how state power interacts with populations it deems abject and how this act of casting off is marked or memorialized upon flesh. Furthermore, the capacity for sustainable change and community-driven direct action will be assessed in-light of abjection. Case studies will center abjection, necropolitics, and state violence through highlighting cross-cultural examples of ableism, anti-Blackness, fatphobia, anti-indigeneity, and queerphobia in North America and around the world. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 305 - Anthropological Theory

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102 . In this course, students will critically engage theoretical trends and debates in anthropology. There is a focus on both foundational theoretical contributions as well as contemporary approaches including topics such as postmodernism, feminism, agency and power, science and technology, and post-colonialism. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 315 - Art and Anthropology

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102 . This course will use anthropological approaches to analyze artistic movements and the ideological construction of “art” itself. It will take both western and non-western artifacts as its subject, situating them within larger issues of taste, class, politics, identity, and economy. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 321 - Archaeology

    In this course, we consider how we know what we think we know about ancient civilizations and long extinct societies. This course seeks to describe the current state of archaeological studies. We will answer questions such as: How do archaeologists know where to dig? Why do they dig square holes? How do they analyze and interpret what they find? (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 329 - Experimental Course

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102 , or consent of instructor. This course is designed to provide additional opportunities to explore experimental areas and subjects of special interest in anthropology. Repeatable if course topic is different. (Offered as needed.) 1, 2, 3, or variable credits depending on the subject matter and course demands
  

  • ANTH 335 - Anthropology of Space and Place

    Prerequisites, ANTH 102 , anthropology minor, consent of instructor. This topics course is an introduction to both the anthropology of space and place and ethnographic fieldwork. It is structured by basic theories of proxemics, and power, and the built environment, and will have a site-specific component. Letter grade. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. (Offered interterm.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 335a - The Anthropology of Space and Place: Disneyland

    Prerequisites, junior standing and anthropology minor or sociology major. This course is designed as an introduction to the anthropology of space and place and to qualitative anthropological data collection methods. Students will conduct empirical research at the Disneyland park to examine different theories of social behavior. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 335b - The Anthropology of Space and Place: Ethnic Enclaves in Asian America

    This course is designed as an introduction to the anthropology of space and place and to qualitative anthropological data collection methods. Students will conduct empirical research in an ethnic enclave to examine the history and development of the ethnic enclave and to immerse themselves into an ethnic enclave through qualitative fieldwork. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 360 - North and Middle American Indians

    Origins, archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic relationships of the Indians of North and Middle America. Mexican peasant culture and contemporary Indian problems are also explored. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 361 - Conflict and Social Change in Latin America

    (Same as PCST 366 .) This course examines processes of conflict and social change in contemporary Latin America with a focus on patterns of domination and resistance. Integrating theory and case studies, the course explores colonial legacies; contested development models; revolutionary movements; gender, indigenous, and citizenship struggles; and the role of the U.S. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  

  • ANTH 395 - Topics in Anthropology

    Prerequisite, ANTH 102 . This course is designed to provide additional opportunities to explore topical areas and subject of special interest in anthropology. May be repeated for credit with different topic. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
  

  • ANTH 399 - Individual Study

    Prerequisites, junior standing, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
  

  • ANTH 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity

    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
 

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