Week 1: Course introduction | Definition and techniques
Week 2: Sequential art optical toys and early animation
Week 3: Beginnings of the Animation Industry
Week 4: Animation as Modern Art
Week 5: Disney – from Mickey Mouse to Bambi
Week 6: Fleischer Studio, Warner Bros & MGM
Week 7: WWII & propaganda
Week 8: International Development in Post War Animation
Week 9: Mid-Century Shifts in American Design
Week 10: The Rise of Television
Week 11: New audiences, early CGI experiments and gaming
Week 12: Disney Renaissance & the rise of CGI
Week 13: Japanese Animation
Week 14: Authorship in animation
Week 15: Where are we today?
