CMD 411 - Comedy Sketch Writing for Entertainment

Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
From storyboarding and sketch-writing to exploration of genres and literary devices, this course introduces you to everything that goes into a comedy sketch in order for it to resonate with today’s audiences, including literary techniques and sketch development, meaning and direction of plotlines, character creation and development, running gags, payoffs, punchlines, while demonstrating an understanding of the evolution of the comedy industry.