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Comedy is a genre of literature that aims to entertain and amuse through humorous situations, witty dialogue, and happy endings. It often involves misunderstandings, mistaken identities, and lighthearted themes.

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Acting for the Stage
Advanced Film Writing
Advanced Screenwriting
American Literature: Before 1800
Ancient Greece
Ancient Mediterranean
Art and Literature
Arts of Korea
British Literature I
Business Storytelling
Cinematography
Classical Poetics
Communication and Popular Culture
Critical TV Studies
Dramaturgy
English 10
English 11
English 12
English 9
English and Language Arts Education
Feminism in Television
Film Aesthetics
Film Criticism
Filmmaking for Journalists
Fundamentals of Stage Directing
Greek Archaeology
Greek Tragedy
Greek and Roman Myths
History of Theatre I: Classical Athens to Elizabethan London
History of Theatre II: Cities at Play from the Renaissance to the Rise of Realism
Introduction to Ancient Greece
Introduction to Aristotle
Introduction to Comparative Literature
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural History
Introduction to Humanities
Introduction to Performance Studies
Introduction to Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture
Introduction to Screenwriting
Introduction to Theatre Arts
Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century
Literature in English: Through Milton
Mass Media and Society
Media Criticism
Motion Picture Editing
Myth and Literature
Narrative Radio
Playwriting Workshop
Production I
Real World Productions
Religion and Literature in the Greco-Roman World
Screenwriting I
Screenwriting II
Storytelling for Film and Television
TV Genres
TV Writing
Television Criticism
The Art and Monuments of Augustan Rome
The Craft of Writing: Film Focus
Theater Production
Understanding Film
Understanding Media
World Literature I
Writing the Television Pilot

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