GD 156 — MEME WORKSHOP (CUR-276)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Graphic Design
- College/School: College of Communication
- Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
- Catalog: GD 156
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/gd
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
This course will provide an introduction to Memes: including history, theory, and evolution. Students will research how the democratization of digital tools allowed for memes to become a means of cultural communication and documentation of design, culture, and society on a global scale from self-help to humor, to politics and beyond. Additionally, students will study the importance of the re-purposed, re-appropriated, and re-used digital image as both a revolutionary and evolutionary design, as well as a piece of collected data for where it has traveled.This workshop includes lectures, discussions, critiques, presentations, hands-on activities, and lab (computer work) time and weekly assignments. Students will experiment with various tools for making memes: everything from open-source, free platforms to more traditional design software.
Hardware relevance
Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: \blab(?:oratory)?\b, hands[- ]on
Notes
Catalog course key: GD 156.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000215←depaul/SRC-000661(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-GD-156.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-GD-156.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.