DIR at DePaul University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate DIR coursework.

• DIR 285Directing Iii: Blocking for Camera (formerly Film 285)opens 3 courses (2 directly)
• DIR 483Directing Ii: Casting and Rehearsing (formerly Film 483)opens 3 courses (1 directly)
• DIR 484Directing Iii: Scene Study (formerly Film 484)opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• DIR 385Directing Iv: Pre-production for Short Film (formerly Film 385)opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate DIR work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 14 DIR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 10 more DIR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in DIR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at DIR 387

  1. DIR 284Directing Ii: Casting and Rehearsing (formerly Film 284)
  2. DIR 285Directing Iii: Blocking for Camera (formerly Film 285)
  3. DIR 385Directing Iv: Pre-production for Short Film (formerly Film 385)
  4. DIR 387Directing V: Directing the Short Film (formerly Film 387)

• 4 courses deep, ending at DIR 485

  1. DIR 482Directing I: Script Analysis (formerly Film 482)
  2. DIR 483Directing Ii: Casting and Rehearsing (formerly Film 483)
  3. DIR 484Directing Iii: Scene Study (formerly Film 484)

• 2 courses deep, ending at DIR 381

  1. DIR 282Acting for Filmmakers (formerly Film 282)
  2. DIR 381Acting for Filmmakers II (formerly Film 381)

• 2 courses deep, ending at DIR 489

  1. DIR 487Directing the Short Motion Picture (formerly Film 487)
  2. DIR 489Directing the Web Series (formerly Film 489)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DIR yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DIR yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

DIR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the DePaul campus feed.