MFA in Screenwriting

MFA candidates have a fourfold requirement: to understand and practice the art of screenwriting; to learn the fundamentals of dramatic production; to understand different models of filmmaking and film history; and to comprehend the role of the storyteller and that of mythology in the dramatic tradition.

Screenwriting Curriculum

First Semester

• COM FT 702 Script into Film
• COM FT 552 Writing the Short Film
• COM FT 711 Screenwriting I
• COM FT 722 American Masterworks or COM FT 721 International Masterworks

Second Semester

• COM FT 707 Production I
• COM FT 512 Writing Episodic Drama
• COM FT 704 Genre for Screenwriting
• COM FT 713 Screenwriting II

Third Semester

• COM FT 724 Screenwriting III
• COM FT 730 Screen Adaptation I
• COM FT 522 Writing Situation Comedy
• Elective*

Fourth Semester

• COM FT 729 Script Analysis
• COM FT 731 Screenwriting IV
• COM FT 514 Writing the Television Pilot
• Elective*

*Screenwriting, FIlm, or Television elective