POST 460 — SOUND AND MUSIC SYNTHESIS FOR FILM (CUR-495)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Film and Television Post-Production
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
- Catalog: POST 460
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: yellow (
Prerequisites Required) - Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
- Prerequisites:
- POST 420 is a prerequisite
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/post
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
This course focuses on the integration of perception, theory, and practice using digital electronic sound synthesis to create custom sound effects and music for visual media. Topics will cover the use and creation of digital electronic sound synthesizers, audio mixing, acoustics, and the history of electronic music in film. Students will learn how to use synthesizers to create customized sonic designs as well as how to apply them to film, video, and interactive experiences. Projects and labs will incorporate real-world examples, practical tutorials, and lectures that will include guests working in audiovisual media, sound design, and electronic music composition for film. POST 420 is a prerequisite for this class.
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: electronics.
Notes
Catalog course key: POST 460.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000434←depaul/SRC-001420(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence- Discovery themes: electronics
- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-POST-460.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-POST-460.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.