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DIR 481 — ACTING FOR FILMMAKERS (FORMERLY FILM 481) (CUR-257)

Summary 🟢 ✓

  • Resource type: course
  • Owner Unit: Film and Television Directing
  • College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
  • Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
  • Catalog: DIR 481
  • 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

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students who plan to work with actors in any aspect of cinema or interactive media, with a foundation in the actor's craft. This will be a hands-on, practical class in which all students will be required to participate fully in the exercises and scene work. Topics to be covered include: relaxation, concentration, trust, listening, sensory work, physical actions, improvisation, imagination, needs, circumstances, objectives, obstacles, scene analysis and scene work. The course will culminate in a staged scene to be presented in class. PREREQUISITE(S): None.

Hardware relevance

Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: hands[- ]on, \bsensor

Notes

Catalog course key: DIR 481.

Provenance (promotion record)

  • Promotion date: 2026-07-01
  • Promotion batch: catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30
  • Provenance kernel:
  • depaul/XTR-000196 ← depaul/SRC-000649 (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-DIR-481.html
  • Schedule: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-DIR-481.json
  • Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.