Textbooks required for DigiPen Institute of Technology courses are available at the DigiPen bookstore on campus.
Required books can be purchased either in the bookstore or online. Please see the links below. The campus bookstore also will purchase used textbooks during the finals week of every semester if the book is being used the next semester and stock is needed.
All of the books below are available on 4-hour reserve in the library, and some are available in electronic format free to faculty and currently enrolled DigiPen students via Ebook Central and Safari. If you need help with logging in to view our ebooks, please email library[at]digipen[dot]edu.
Books by Department
Fall 2019 Textbook List
ANI — Animation Courses
ANI 101 (MORGAN)
- Required: (One of the following)
- The Animator’s Survival Kit, Expanded Edition, 2012, by Richard Williams, ISBN 9780865478978, online price
- Or The App: The Animator’s Survival Kit by Faber and Faber
- Recommended:
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, 1995, Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston, ISBN 0786860707, online price
- Character Animation Crash Course, by Eric Goldberg; ISBN 9781879505971, online price
- Timing for Animation, 2nd ed., 2009, Harold Whitaker & John Halas, ISBN 0240521609, online price
ANI 101 (DE FATO)
- Required:
- The Animator’s Survival Kit, Expanded Edition, 2012, by Richard Williams, ISBN 9780865478978, online price
- Recommended:
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, 1995, Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston, ISBN 0786860707, online price
- Character Animation Crash Course, by Eric Goldberg; ISBN 9781879505971, online price
- Timing for Animation, 2nd ed., 2009, Harold Whitaker & John Halas, ISBN 0240521609, online price
ANI 101 (FRANCOEUR)
- Required:
- The Animator’s Survival Kit, Expanded Edition, 2012, by Richard Williams, ISBN 9780865478978, online price
- Recommended:
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, 1995, Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston, ISBN 0786860707, online price
ANI 101 (DALY)
- Required: (One of the following)
- The Animator’s Survival Kit, Expanded Edition, 2012, by Richard Williams, ISBN 9780865478978, online price
- Or The App: The Animator’s Survival Kit by Faber and Faber
- Recommended:
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, 1995, Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston, ISBN 0786860707, online price
- Character Animation Crash Course, by Eric Goldberg; ISBN 9781879505971, online price
- Timing for Animation, 2nd ed., 2009, Harold Whitaker & John Halas, ISBN 0240521609, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- ANI 300 A (KAUFMAN)
- ANI 350 (TBD)
ART — Art Courses
ART 115 (ALESSANDRINI)
- Required:
- Living With Art, 10th Edition, 2012, by Mark Getlein, ISBN 9780073379258, online price
ART 201 (ROSSANO)
- Required for Sculpture class:
- Modeling and sculpting the human figure, Edouard Lanteri, ISBN 9780486250069, online price
- Required for Drawing class:
- Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, 2010, by Michael Hampton, ISBN 9780615272818, online price
ART 210 (ADAMS)
- Required:
- Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning, 2016, by Pamela Sachant and Peggy Blood, ISBN 9781940771298, free download
ART 228 (ROSSANO)
- Required:
- Modeling and sculpting the human figure, Edouard Lanteri, ISBN 9780486250069, online price
ART 234 (KOTZEBUE)
- Required:
- Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, by Scott McCloud, 2006, ISBN 9780060780944, online price
ART 300 (RUBEL)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Framed Ink, by Marcos Mateu-Mestre, ISBN 9781933492957, online price
ART 301 (RUELOS)
- Recommended:
- The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design, by Tod Polson, ISBN 9781452102948, online price
- Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation; Hans Bacher, ISBN 9780240520933, online price
- Vision: Color and Composition for Film, by Hans Bacher, ISBN 1786272202, online price
- Beyond Art Fundamentals, Marisa Lewis, ed., ISBN 1909414360, online price
- Color and light: A guide for the realist painter, James Gurney, ISBN 9780740797712, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- ART 101 (LOREFICE)
- ART 101 (KANG-O’HIGGINS)
- ART 105 (GANULIN)
- ART 113 (TURNER)
- ART 125 (PARRY)
- ART 125 (FINNERTY)
- ART 125 (WEATHERLY)
- ART 200 (HOOPER)
- ART 201 (HOOPER)
- ART 201 (LONGO)
- ART 222 (TURNER)
- ART 226 (DE FATO)
- ART 230 (PARRY)
- ART 300 A (MOODY)
- ART 310 (MEIGHAN)
- ART 350 (KOTZEBUE)
- ART 360 (MEIGHAN)
- ART 399 (SAMUELS)
- ART 400 (GANULIN)
- ART 401 (LONGO)
- ART 401 (SURPRISE)
- ART 401 (THACKER)
- ART 522 (KMIEC)
- ART 701 (FINNERTY)
- ART 703 (HENNE)
CG - Computer Graphics Courses
CG 275 (NG)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- The Animator’s Survival Kit, Expanded Edition, 2012, by Richard Williams, ISBN 9780865478978, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- CG 102 (LU)
- CG 201 (HAGHIRI)
- CG 201 (ANDRIST)
- CG 225 (NELSON)
- CG 225 (SAMSON)
- CG 300 (POPLIN)
- CG 305 (BRILEY)
- CG 315 (EVENSON)
- CG 360 (DUDLEY)
- CG 375 (BISHOP)
- CG 376 (BISHOP)
- CG 398 (BRILEY)
- CG 399 (RUBEL)
- CG 403 (POPLIN)
- CG 405 (BRILEY)
- CG 501 (NELSON)
- CG 525 (KMIEC)
COL - College Success Courses
No Textbooks Required:
- COL 101 (ALL)
- COL 401 (AHMADI)
- COL 499 (AHMADI)
COM - Communications Courses
No Textbooks Required:
- COM 150 (CHOI)
- COM 250 (MICHAELS)
CS - Computer Science Courses
CS 100 (HASSARD, VILLAREAL, DUBA)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Code: The hidden language of computer hardware and software; Charles Petzold; ISBN 9780735611313, online price
CS 116 (CECCI)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Code: The hidden language of computer hardware and software; Charles Petzold; ISBN 9780735611313, online price
CS 120 (GHALI)
- Required:
- C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition; K.N. King, ISBN 9780393979503, online price
CS 120 (MEAD)
- Required:
- C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition; K.N. King, ISBN 9780393979503, online price Note: Earlier and used editions are cheaper and fine to use.
CS 200 (GHALI)
- Required:
- Introduction to Computer Graphics: A Practical Learning Approach, by Ganovelli, Corsini, Pattanaik, and Di Benedetto, ISBN 9781439852798, online price
CS 211 (AMAYRI)
- Required:
- Database systems: The complete book; 2nd ed.; Hector Garcia-Molina, et al.; ISBN 9780131873254, online price
CS 246 (HANSON)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Designing Audio Effect Plug-Ins in C++, Will Pirkle, ISBN 9780240825151, online price
CS 250 (HANSON)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Computer Graphics: From Pixels to Programmable Graphics Hardware, Alexey Boreskov and Evgeniy Shikin, ISBN 9781482215571, online price
- OpenGL Programming Guide, 9th edition, 2016; Kessenich, Sellers, and Shreiner, ISBN 9780134495491, online price
CS 251 A (HERRON)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Real-time rendering, 3rd edition, Tomas Akenine-Moller, ISBN 9781568814247, online price
CS 260 (SBEEMAN)
- Required:
- Multiplayer Game Programming, Joshua Glazer & Sanjay Madhav, ISBN 0134034309, online price
CS 300 (KARNICK)
- Required:
- OpenGL Programming Guide, 8th edition, 2013; Kessenich, Sellers, and Shreiner, ISBN 9780321773036, online price
CS 541 (HERRON)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Real-time rendering, 3rd edition, Tomas Akenine-Moller, ISBN 9781568814247, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- CS 175 (CECCI)
- CS 176 (CECCI)
- CS 180 (MEAD)
- CS 388 (DORGAN)
- CS 460 (HERRON)
- CS 509 (ABI CHACRA)
- CS 562 (HERRON)
DES - Design Courses
No Textbooks Required:
- DES 100 (CRONK)
- DES 100 (HOFFMAN)
- DES 100 (RADAKOVICH)
- DES 115 (ELLINGER)
- DES 220 (HOLCOMB)
- DES 220 (STOCKWELL)
- DES 270 (ASH)
- DES 270 (CRONK)
- DES 270 (RADAKOVICH)
ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses
ECE 220 (HASSARD)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- The art of designing embedded systems, 2nd edition; Jack Ganssle; ISBN 9780750686440, online price
- Embedded systems: World class designs, 1rst edition; Jack Ganssle; ISBN 9780750686259, online price
- An embedded software primer, 1rst edition; David E. Simon; ISBN 9780201615692, online price
- Embedded systems design: An introduction to processes, tools and techniques, 1rst edition; Arnold S. Berger; ISBN 9781578200733, online price
ECE 270 (NAM)
- Required:
- Embedded systems: Real-time Operating Systems for Arm Cortex M Microcontrollers, 4th edition; Jonathan Valvano; ISBN 9781466468863, online price Notes from Amazon: “This book is self-published and is printed on demand. The original ISBN was generated in 2012, but if you purchase the book new from CreateSpace or Amazon you will get the new version, which was uploaded January 3, 2017. This book, now in its fourth edition (January 2017), is the third in a series of three books that teach the fundamentals of embedded systems as applied to ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.”
- Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems, Qing Li & Caroline Yao, 2003, ISBN 9781578201242, online price
- Recommended:
- Embedded systems: Introduction to Arm Cortex M Microcontrollers, 5th Edition (Volume 1); Jonathan W Valvano, ISBN 9781477508992, online price
- Embedded systems: Real-time interfacing to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers; Jonathan W. Valvano, ISBN 9781463590154, online price
ECE 300 (HASSARD)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Embedded systems: Real-time interfacing to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers, Jonathan W. Valvano, ISBN 9781463590154, online price
- Embedded systems: Real-time Operating Systems for the Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers, 4th edition; Jonathan Valvano, ISBN 9781466468863, online price
- Embedded systems: Introduction to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers, 5th Edition (Volume 1), Jonathan W Valvano, ISBN 9781477508992, online price
ECE 310 (THOMAS)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Embedded systems: Real-time interfacing to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers, Jonathan W. Valvano, ISBN 9781463590154, online price
- Embedded systems: Real-time Operating Systems for the Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers, 4th edition; Jonathan Valvano, ISBN 9781466468863, online price
- Embedded systems: Introduction to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers, 5th Edition (Volume 1), Jonathan W Valvano, ISBN 9781477508992, online price
- A guide to writing as an engineer, 4th ed., David F. Beer & David A. McMurrey, ISBN 9781118300275, online price
ECE 350 (VILLARREAL)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Control systems engineering, 6th edition.; Norman Nise, ISBN 0470547561, online price
ECN – Economics Courses
ECN 100 (HOUSHYARI)
- Required:
- Essentials of Economics, 5th ed., 2017, by Hubbard & O’Brien, ISBN 9780134106922, online price
ENG - English Courses
ENG 110 (HODGES)
- Required:
- Science Fiction & Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Susan Schneider, ISBN 9781118922613, online price
- Existentialism, 2nd edition, Robert Solomon, ASIN B011DBWBVA, online price
ENG 116 (GREWELL)
- Required:
- The writer’s journey: Mythic structure for writers; 3rd ed.; Christopher Vogler; ISBN 193290736X, online price
ENG 116 (JOLY)
- Required:
- Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction; by Jeff VanderMeer (Revised & Updated, 2018), ISBN 9781419729669, online price
ENG 116 (NIZAMANI)
- Required:
- The writer’s journey: Mythic structure for writers; 3rd ed.; Christopher Vogler; ISBN 193290736X, online price
- Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction; by Jeff VanderMeer (Revised & Updated, 2018), ISBN 9781419729669, online price
ENG 150 (JOLY)
- Required:
- Mythology : the Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling, Scott Littleton, ISBN 9781904292012, online price
ENG 230 (MICHAELS)
- Required:
- The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, Edited by Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, Carol McGuirk, ISBN 0819569550, online price
ENG 250 (NIZAMANI)
- Required:
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, by Scott McCloud, ISBN 9780060976255, online price
- A Contract with God, Will Eisner, ISBN 9780393328042, online price
- Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman, ISBN 9780394747231, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- ENG 110 (GREWELL)
- ENG 110 (MUTH)
- ENG 116 (MUTH)
FLM - Film Courses
FLM 201 (MOSIO)
- Required:
- The Visual Story; 2nd ed.; Bruce Block; ISBN 9780240807799, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- FLM 115 (SULLIVAN)
- FLM 151 (VANCIL)
- FLM 210 (MOSIO)
GAM - Game Projects Courses
GAM 200 (BEEMAN, RRUTHERFORD, DSCHILLING)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- C++ for Game Programmers; 2nd edition, Michael Dickheiser; ISBN 1584504528, online price
- Game Coding Complete, 4th edition, 2013, Mike McSchaffry; ISBN 1133776574, online price (used)
- Game Engine Architecture, 2nd edition, Jason Gregory, ISBN 1466560010, online price
- Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, by Scott Rogers, ISBN 1118877160, online price
GAM 200L (BEEMAN, RRUTHERFORD, DSCHILLING)
- Required:
- None
- Recommended:
- Game Coding Complete, 4th edition, 2013, Mike McSchaffry; ISBN 1133776574, online price (used)
- Game Engine Architecture, 2nd edition, Jason Gregory, ISBN 1466560010, online price
- Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, by Scott Rogers, ISBN 1118877160, online price
GAM 550 (FLEEGAL)
- Recommended:
- Characteristics of Games, 2012, by Elias, Garfield et al, ISBN 9780262017138, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- GAM 100 (CHAMBERS)
- GAM 205 (HOLCOMB)
- GAM 300 (ORTH)
- GAM 375 (ROWAN)
- GAM 450 (SWARD)
GAT - Game Design and Development Courses
GAT 212 (HOFFMAN)
- Required:
- Dungeon Master’s Guide : Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, 2014, by Jeremy Crawford et al, ISBN 9780786965625, online price
- Postmortems: Selected Essays, volume 1, 2018, by Ralph Koster, ISBN 9780996793742, online price
- Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game, deluxe edition, by Greg Costikyan, ISBN 1556341970, online price
- Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering, 2002, by Robin D. Laws, ISBN 9781556346293, PDF price
- Fate: Core and System Toolkit, free
- One Gaming Paper Roll, online price
- One full polyhedral dice set, including at least: one d20, d4, d8, d12 and two of each d6 and d10, price varies
GAT 261 (CAGLE)
- Required:
- Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation, 2009, by Steve Swink, ISBN 9780123743282, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- GAT 240 (CRONK)
- GAT 315 (GRACE)
- GAT 316 (ROWAN)
- GAT 330 (SWARD)
- GAT 398 (MORRISON)
- GAT 399 (LUKINS)
- GAT 405 (OLSEN)
JPN - Japanese Courses
JPN 101 (RUSCHA)
- Required:
- An integrated course in elementary Japanese; Genki I; 2nd. ed.; Eri Banno; Yoko Ikeda; et. al.; ISBN 9784789014403, online price
MAT - Mathematics Courses
MAT 320 (KLASSEN)
- Required:
- A Digital Signal Processing Primer, Ken Steiglitz, ISBN 0805316841, online price
MAT 364 (KLASSEN)
- Required:
- Lessons in play: An introduction to combinatorial game theory, by M. Albert, R. Nowakowski, D. Wolfe; ISBN 9781568812779, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- MAT 120 (KLASSEN)
MGT - Management Courses
MGT 399 (OVERTON)
- Required:
- Collaboration explained : facilitation skills for software project leaders, Jean Tabaka, ISBN 9780321268778, online price
MUS - Music Courses
MUS 120 (YODER)
- Required:
- Tonal harmony, 8th ed., Stefan Kostka, ISBN 9781259447099, online price Note: 7th edition is also okay.
MUS 150L (SCHWEDLER)
- Required:
- Logic Pro X 10.4 - Apple Pro Training Series, David Nahmani, ISBN 9780135244760, online price
- Recommended:
- A Composer’s Guide to Game Music, by Winifred Phillips, ISBN 9780262026642, online price
MUS 160 (LIKKEL)
- Required:
- American Popular Music, 4th edition, by Starr & Waterman; ISBN 0199859116, online price
MUS 220 (STARK)
- Required:
- Tonal harmony; 7th ed.; Stefan Kostka; ISBN 9780078025143, online price
MUS 230 (STARK)
- Required:
- Bach 2- and 3-part inventions, Carl Czerny Schirmer; ISBN 9780793569243, online price
MUS 250 (BROWN)
- Required:
- Modern recording techniques, 8th edition, David Miles Huber; ISBN 9780240821573, online price
MUS 260 (O’BENT)
- Required:
- The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (11th edition), by Kristine Forney & Joseph Machlis, ISBN 9780393935202, online price
MUS 320 (O’BENT)
- Required:
- The Study of Orchestration, 3rd edition, Samuel Adler; ISBN 039397572X, online price
- Workbook: for The Study of Orchestration, 3rd edition (No. 1); Samuel Adler; ISBN 0393977005, online price
MUS 350 (DIXON)
- Required:
- Modern Recording Techniques, 9th edition, David Miles Huber and Robert E. Runstein, ISBN 9781138954373, online price
MUS 370 (DIXON)
- Required:
- Modern Recording Techniques, 9th edition, David Miles Huber and Robert E. Runstein, ISBN 9781138954373, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- MUS 112 (O’BENT)
- MUS 115 (SAULLS)
- MUS 116 (LIKKEL)
- MUS 118 (O’BENT)
- MUS 120L (YODER)
- MUS 130 (YODER)
- MUS 240 (SAULLS)
- MUS 280 (BORCHERS)
- MUS 330 (STARK)
- MUS 322 (SAULLS)
- MUS 340 (DIXON)
- MUS 450 (SCHMIDT)
- MUS 470 (KLASSEN)
PHY — Physics Courses
PHY 200 A (SHAH)
- Required:
- Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics; 4th ed., Douglas Giancoli, ISBN 9780131495081, online price
PHY 250 (SHAH, THIRUMALAI)
- Required:
- Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics; 4th ed., Douglas Giancoli, ISBN 9780131495081, online price
PHY 290 (SHAH)
- Required:
- Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics; 4th ed., Douglas Giancoli, ISBN 9780131495081, online price
PHY 300 (THIRUMALAI)
- Required:
- Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 5th edition, Stephen T. Thornton, Jerry B. Marion; ISBN 0534408966, online price
PHY 320 (ROBERSON)
- Required:
- Acoustics, an introduction to its physical principles and applications, by Allan D. Pierce, ISBN 9780883186121, online price (try to get this from other students)
No Textbooks Required:
- PHY 116 (SOLORZANO)
- MUS 199 (LIEPERT)
- MUS 200L (SOLORZANO, ROBERSON)
PRJ - Projects Courses
PRJ 251 A (DDALY)
- Required:
- The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design, by Tod Polson, ISBN 9781452102948, online price
- Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation; Hans Bacher, ISBN 9780240520933, online price
- Character Animation Crash Course, by Eric Goldberg; ISBN 9781879505971, online price
- Recommended:
- Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation, Francis Glebas, ISBN 9780240810768, online price
- Professional Storyboarding: Rules of Thumb, Sergio Paez and Anson Jew, ISBN 9780240817705, online price
- Color and light: A guide for the realist painter, James Gurney, ISBN 9780740797712, online price
- Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1, 2009, Walt Stanchfield, ISBN 0240810961, online price
- Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2, 2009, Walt Stanchfield, ISBN 0240811070, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- PRJ 300 (HENNE, MATHUES)
- PRJ 302 (SAMSON)
- PRJ 400 (HENNE, MATHUES)
- PRJ 402 (MATHUES, SCHNEUWLY)
- PRJ 601 (HENNE)
PSY - Psychology Courses
PSY 101 (HAWK)
- Required:
- Psychology, 1st edition, 2014, Spielman et al., published by OpenStax, free download
- iClicker Student Response Device (iClicker+, iClicker2, and Reef polling cellphone app all work), $25-40
- Psychology, 1st edition, 2014, Spielman et al., published by OpenStax, free download
PSY 101 (SIMON)
- Required:
- My Psychology, 1st edition, 2019, Andrew Pomerantz, ISBN 9781429260183, online price
PSY 399 (HAWK)
- Required:
- Parapsychology: the Science of Unusual Experience, 2nd edition, 2016, David Groome and Ron Roberts, ISBN 9781138916418, online price
No Textbooks Required:
- PSY 210 (HEMOVICH)
SOS - Social Science Courses
No Textbooks Required:
- SOS 115 (CHOI)
- SOS 399 (PEET)