Core Areas

(1) Creative Arts and Design (1 course)

• DSGN 5005: 3-D Computer Modeling

(2-5) Computer Science, Systems and Technology (4 courses)

• CIS 560: Interactive Computer Graphics
• CIS 562: Computer Animation
• CIS 660: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics and Animation
• Math-based course requirement. Recommended courses include:
  • CIS 561: Advanced Computer Graphics
  • CIS 563: Physically-Based Animation
  • CIS 581: Computer Vision
  • CIS 580: Machine Perception
  • CIS 519: Introduction to Machine Learning
  • CIS 520: Machine Learning
  • ENM 503: Introduction to Probability & Statistics

(6) Business and Entrepreneurship (1 course)

Recommended choices include:

• • EAS 545: Engineering Entrepreneurship I
  • IPD 515: Product Design

(7) Graphics Elective (1 Course)

A graduate-level technical or creative course in the area of graphics or animation.  Approval of the CGGT program director is required. Courses that can be selected as the Graphics Elective include:

• CIS 565: GPU Programming
• CIS 561: Advanced Computer Graphics
• CIS 563: Physically-Based Animation
• CIS 770: Graphics-related Special Topics courses
• FNAR 5004: Video1
• FNAR 5025: Computer Animation
• FNAR 5017: Cinema Production

(8) Technical Elective (1 Course)

Any graduate level course in Penn Engineering. Approval of the CGGT program director is required. Recommended choices include:

• CIS 561: Physically-Based Rendering
• CIS 563: Physically-Based Animation
• CIS 770: Graphics-related Special Topics courses
• CIS 581: Computer Vision
• CIS 580: Machine Perception
• CIS 519: Introduction to Machine Learning
• CIS 520: Machine Learning
• ESE 505: Control of Systems
• ESE 619: Model Predictive Control
• CIS 555: Internet and Web Systems
• CIS 599: Independent Study
• CIS 564: Game Design and Development (only offered during the summer term)

(9) Free Elective (1 Course)

Any graduate level course at the University that relates in some way to graphics, animation and/or games. Approval of the CGGT program director is required.

Recommended choices include any of the Graphics Elective, Technical Elective or Business and Entrepreneurship courses listed above as well as:

• DSGN 5009: Digital Figure Modeling
• FNAR 5066: Advanced Project Animation
• DSGN 5004: Web Design 1
• EAS 546: Engineering Entrepreneurship II
• OIDD 662: Enabling Technologies

(10) Design Project (1 Course)

• CIS 568: Game Design Practicum
• CIS 597: Master’s Thesis