This course is designed to cover the fundamentals of all comedy writing with special reference to the techniques of writing comedy for television, particularly episodic sitcoms and Saturday Night Live-type sketches. Students learn the language and process of TV comedy and are required to write a number of sketches and a fully realized script for an on-air sitcom. Lab: 3 hrs. Prerequisites: BDC 102 and BDC 202 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1