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Chris mentioned that NYU is offering a course in storyboarding; I’ve been thinking of picking up this skill, since I think I’d be good at it and it seems like a good way to pick up money on a flexible schedule. Unfortunately, being NYU, they’re charging like $900 for it. I figured SVA would charge a lot less, and since we were on 23rd Street anyway, we detoured over to the main SVA building and I picked up the Fall 2002 continuing education course catalog. I’ve looked it over, and discovered a few things:

• The Advertising department has all the best course titles and descriptions. They would, wouldn’t they? They actually offer a classes called “Oooh, Advertising Sounds Like an Interesting Career, I Think I’ll Take This Class”, and “Get Humiliated” and — oh, just look for yourself.
• There doesn’t seem to be a course in just storyboarding.
• The Illustration & Cartooning department offers a whole bunch of interesting courses. (Not surprising, that’s what I majored in.) “Drawing New York City” involves going around the city drawing on location. “Anatomy of a Portrait: All About Faces” also intrigues. Anyway, “Cartooning for Syndication, TV and Comic Books” is probably what I want, despite the missing serial comma; it covers a bunch of stuff including storyboarding, and it’s only $410. First session was today. Oops. I really should have thought of this a few weeks ago, ideally before the summer so I maybe could have taken a course already. I may look into it anyway; it’s a twelve-session course, so I might still be able to profit from the remaining eleven.