SCWR 480 — DIGITAL COMEDY CONTENT CREATION (CUR-509)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Film and Television Screenwriting
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
- Catalog: SCWR 480
- 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/scwr
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of creator-driven comedy production, focusing on the creation of short-form comedic content for digital platforms. Through hands-on exercises in brainstorming, storytelling, filming, and editing, students will develop their distinct comedic voice using accessible tools such as smartphones and consumer-grade cameras. Emphasizing low-budget, flexible filmmaking techniques, the course equips students to produce engaging, high-quality content independently. With a focus on rapid experimentation and iteration, students will create multiple projects, building confidence and honing their comedic skills.
Hardware relevance
Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: hands[- ]on, camera(?:s)?\b
Notes
Catalog course key: SCWR 480.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000448←depaul/SRC-000715(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-SCWR-480.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-SCWR-480.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.