新兴媒体美术硕士课程提供有关动画和视觉效果，企业数字电影以及工作室艺术和计算机的曲目。MFA是终极学术和创造力学位课程，适合那些希望从事高等教育教授或行业创意领袖职业的学生。动画和视觉效果轨道是一个专门程序，旨在模拟专业工作室环境，从而为每位学生提供承担艺术领导角色的机会。主要重点放在叙事电影的结构以及与工作室和工作创造相关的动画的创业方面。
The Animation and Visual Effects track is a specialized program designed to emulate the professional studio environment, providing opportunities to assume an artistic leadership role. The principal emphasis is placed on narrative film structure and the entrepreneurial aspects of animation as related to independent filmmaking, studio employment, and job creation. Housed in the School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), the Emerging Media MFA - Animation and Visual Effects track is a specialized program designed to emulate the professional and independent studio environment, providing opportunities to assume an artistic leadership role. The principal emphasis is placed on narrative film structure and the entrepreneurial aspects of animation as related to independent filmmaking, studio employment, and job creation.<br><br>Designed to prepare students for careers in animation, courses provide an understanding of the collaborative function of a commercial studio during the first-year production courses. In addition, students develop their unique style of independent filmmaking during preproduction and production of their thesis film over the duration of the three-year program. Opportunities are available to co-direct a team of undergraduate Character Animation students, adding toward our canon of award-winning films. Labs and studios are equipped with the same industry-standard software and hardware used in professional studios.