VFX 490 — ADVANCED TOPICS IN VISUAL EFFECTS (CUR-524)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Visual Effects
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
- Catalog: VFX 490
- 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/vfx
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Advanced study in visual effects focusing on a specific area each quarter such as: virtual reality, stereoscopic compositing, visual effects supervising, visual effects producing, optical effects, etc. May be repeated for credit.
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: optics_laser.
Notes
Catalog course key: VFX 490.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000463←depaul/SRC-001434(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence- Discovery themes: optics_laser
- 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-VFX-490.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-VFX-490.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.