An introductory course in motion graphics which includes the categories of commercial, broadcast, main title and music video. The course will include lectures, showcases and demonstrations of the history, techniques and applications of motion graphics in broadcast media. Projects will cover basic motion graphics principles, design and synchronization. Appropriate and current industry standard computer applications will be introduced and applied. Motion graphics also hopes to situate video/animation (and related media) in broader cultural, social and aesthetic contexts, such as visual culture and the history of the senses modernity, modernism, and the avant-garde; commercial entertainment forms and leisure and consumer culture; transnational media production and circulation, globalization and global media publics.