| | | Tuesday | | Thursday | Homework (Due Date) |
| Week 1 | 9/22 | Introduction | 9/24 | Working with Light | Blender Setup (Mon 9/28) |
| Week 2 | 9/29 | Virtual World | 10/1 | Triangles | Triangles & Transformations (Mon 10/5) |
| Week 3 | 10/6 | Ray Tracing | 10/8 | Recursive Ray Tracing | Ray Tracing (Mon 10/12) |
| Week 4 | 10/13 | Optics | 10/15 | Shaders | Lighting & Shading (Mon 10/19) |
| Week 5 | 10/20 | Global Illumination | 10/22 | Photon Mapping | Global Illumination (Mon 10/26) |
| Week 6 | 10/27 | Sampling | 10/29 | Advanced Rendering | Advanced Rendering (Mon 11/2) |
| Week 7 | 11/3 | (Democracy Day) | 11/5 | Final Project Kickoff | Project Proposal (Mon 11/9) |
| Week 8 | 11/10 | Geometric Modeling | 11/12 | More Geometric | Modeling Geometric Modeling (Mon 11/16) |
| Week 9 | 11/17 | Texture Mapping | 11/19 | More Texture Mapping | Texturing (Mon 11/30) |
| T. Break | 11/24 | (Thanksgiving) | 11/26 | (Thanksgiving) | |
| Week 10 | 12/1 | (Work on Project) | 12/3 | (Work on Project) | |
| F. Week | | NO FINAL EXAM | | | Final Project (THU 12/10) |