DES 389 — SCENE PAINTING (CUR-073)

Summary 🟡 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Design
• College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
• Catalog: DES 389
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: yellow (Prerequisites Required)
• Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
• Prerequisites:
• Program: Undergraduate or Graduate Theatre

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/des
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

Third course in a 3 course sequence. Discussion of the formulation and handling of scene paints and dyes, brushes and tools, and techniques. Practical laboratory work in problems of the realistic representation of a variety of textures and materials at scenic scale leads to fully developed illusionistic and pictorial stage scenery. DES 388 and status as an Undergraduate or Graduate Theatre student is a prerequisite for this class.

Hardware relevance

Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.

Notes

Catalog course key: DES 389. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.