The requirements, reviews, and curriculum for CCA's Animation program are designed such that graduating students successfully achieve the following program learning outcomes:

• Students can translate written or spoken concepts into animated character performances or the pre-visualization materials, and/or create animations expressing personal conceptual ideas and research.
• Students can create animation that demonstrates material and technological skills expected for entry into professional practice.
• Students can animate in multiple modes such as hand drawn, digital hand drawn, digital graphics, and 3D Computer Generated.

By taking strategic risks students combine or synthesize ideas, images, or techniques in original/innovative ways to produce creative solutions. In particular: the ability to translate written concepts into analogous visual expressions.

Students work cooperatively to achieve shared goals. This includes the ability to critique, respond to suggestions, and create consensus within the group structure of an animated production. It also includes an understanding of, and ability to contribute to a larger professional studio pipeline environment.

Students identify and prepare for appropriate professional pathways by engaging with program faculty and available career development resources. This includes creating a demo reel, portfolio, website, resume and artist statement.

Students apply their knowledge of historical and contemporary animation and art practices to contextualize their work within historical landscapes and contemporary practices.

Students understand how meaning is formed through the interrelationship between multiple works, and are moving towards building an independent artistic voice and a cohesive body of work.

Students can engage with diverse and global perspectives, histories, and values, including the cultural relevance of larger systems of power and privilege.

Students demonstrate an understanding of sustainability as a global, social, economic, environmental, and practice-based concern.