{"id":27742,"date":"2021-04-10T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?page_id=27742"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:26:16","slug":"screenwriting-course-path","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/for-current-students\/for-film-tv-students\/screenwriting-course-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Screenwriting Course Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Required course<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-310\/\">FT310 STORYTELLING FOR FILM AND TELEVISION<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>For Film<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>FT 411\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-411\/\">SCREENWRITING I\u00a0<\/a>TACKLING THE FEATURE-LENGTH SCREENPLAY(PRE-REQ FT310)<\/li><li>FT 412\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-412\/\">SCREENWRITING II\u00a0<\/a>WRITING A FULL FEATURE-LENGTH SCREENPLAY(PRE-REQ FT411)<\/li><li>FT 542\u00a0ADV. SCREENWRITING II\u00a0WRITING A FULL FEATURE-LENGTH SCREENPLAY(PRE-REQ FT411)<\/li><li>FT 582\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-582\/\">NARRATIVE SHORT\u00a0<\/a>(PRE-REQ FT310)<\/li><li>FT 552\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-552\/\">PRODUCING WRITING THE SHORT\u00a0<\/a>(PRE-REQ FT310)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>For Television<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>FT 512\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-512\/\">WRITING EPISODIC DRAMA FOR TELEVISION\u00a0<\/a>(PRE-REQ FT310)<\/li><li>FT 514\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-514\/\">WRITING THE TELEVISION PILOT\u00a0<\/a>(PRE-REQ FT512 OR FT522)<\/li><li>FT 522\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-522\/\">WRITING TELEVISION SITCOM SCRIPTS\u00a0<\/a>(PRE-REQ FT310)<\/li><li>FT 516\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/courses\/com-ft-516\/\">WRITING THE SITCOM PILOT\u00a0<\/a>(PRE-REQ FT512 OR FT522)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Suggested electives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to finding their way up the ladder of screenwriting courses, students with an interest in writing should take advantage of the breadth of subjects offered at the university. Each semester, thousands of courses are offered at BU in scores of departments. Here is a way to sort through this vast array of resources by topic.\u00a0Keep in mind that there may be prerequisites to some of these courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Psychology<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>PS 101 \u2013 General Psychology<\/li><li>PS 370 \u2013 Psychology of the Family<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>American Studies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>AM 200 \u2013 Introduction to American Studies<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>History<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>(Examples that might be relevant to students\u2019 projects)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>HI 152 \u2013 The United States Since 1865<\/li><li>HI 211 \u2013 The Age of Discoveries<\/li><li>HI 218 \u2013 History of Contemporary Europe<\/li><li>HI 221 \u2013 Catastrophe and cultural Memory<\/li><li>HI 222 \u2013 Science and Technology in World History<\/li><li>HI 271 \u2013 The Nazis<\/li><li>HI 281 \u2013 American Governance: Foreign A\u001fairs, Politics and Presidents in the 20th Century<\/li><li>HI 303 \u2013 Sex, Love &amp; Family<\/li><li>HI 338 \u2013 20th C United States, 1945- 1968<\/li><li>HI 361 \u2013 Black Radical Thought<\/li><li>HI 384 \u2013 History of Genocide<\/li><li>JO 479 \u2013 Impact of Darwin<\/li><li>HI 484 \u2013 Revolutionary Change in Middle East<\/li><li>HI 486 \u2013 Islamic History<\/li><li>HI 537 \u2013 World War II<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Anthropology<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>AN 101 \u2013 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>English<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Any literature courses, British, English (or Foreign)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>CAS EN 510 \u2013 Playwriting I: Writing of Short Plays<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Sociology<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>SO 205 \u2013 American Families<\/li><li>SO 207 \u2013 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity<\/li><li>SO 241 \u2013 Sociology of Gender<\/li><li>SO 318 \u2013 Sociology of Childhood and Youth<\/li><li>SO 333 \u2013 The Workplace<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Theater Arts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>CFA TH 224 \u2013 Fundamentals of Acting: Narrative and Imagery<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Other disciplines to explore: Latin American Studies; Middle East and North; Africa Studies; Political Science; and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are urged to be creative and adventurous in their course selections.<br>Any area of inquiry has the potential to add to their personal and professional development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Required course FT310 STORYTELLING FOR FILM AND TELEVISION For Film FT 411\u00a0SCREENWRITING I\u00a0TACKLING THE FEATURE-LENGTH SCREENPLAY(PRE-REQ FT310)FT 412\u00a0SCREENWRITING II\u00a0WRITING A&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16717,"featured_media":0,"parent":27053,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27799,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27742\/revisions\/27799"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=27742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}