Screenwriting
Students in the screenwriting program have a fourfold requirement: to understand and to 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. Students in the program are required to write a minimum of three full-length original screenplays.
Screenwriting Curriculum
First Semester
- COM FT 702 Script into Film
- COM FT 706 Acting for Directors and Writers
- COM FT 711 Screenwriting I
- COM FT 722 American Masterworks or COM FT 721 International Masterworks
Second Semester
- COM FT 526 Directing the Theatrical and Television Film
- COM FT 713 Screenwriting II
- COM FT 552 Genres
- COM FT 552 Screenwriting Pedagogy or Elective (At least one of these electives must be a film studio course.)
Third Semester
- COM FT 724 Screenwriting III
- COM FT 730 Principles of Adaption
- COM FT 512 Writing Episodic Drama
- Elective (At least one of these electives must be a film studio course.)
Fourth Semester
- COM FT 552 Special Topics: The Rewrite
- COM FT 729 Script Analysis
- COM FT 731 Screenwriting IV
- Elective (At least one of these electives must be a film studio course.)
Screenwriting Program Electives
- COM FT 510 Television Aesthetics
- COM FT 512 Writing Episodic Drama
- COM FT 514 Advanced Writing for Television
- COM FT 522 Writing Situation Comedies
- COM FT 543 Television Comedy
- COM FT 560 The Documentary
- COM FT 561 Television Drama
- COM FT 712 Television Seminar
- Film Studies electives
