CTA 2600 Comedy Writing

Students explore principles and techniques involved in writing, performing, and producing comedic content. This course helps students sharpen their tools in observation, timing, and voice to create comedy for multiple forms of entertainment, including: standup sets, sketch writing, writing comedic sketches and shorts.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

None

Course Types

Cinema and Television Arts Elective

Offered

• Summer

1. Students will be able to:
   - apply industry best practices and processes in a variety of writing formats and styles common in writing comedy for the stage and
   screen.
2. - employ theory and history in writing comedic content.
3. - demonstrate creative and critical thinking when structuring and plotting comedic content.
4. - critique aesthetic, technique, and commercial value of comedic works.
5. - consider issues of freedom of expression in writing commercially viable comedic content.
6. - understand and incorporate best practices of diversity, equity and inclusion in writing and performing comedy.