Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022 
  
    May 03, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022
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ENGL 403 - Advanced Writing for Stage & Screen


Credits: 3

This course, writing for the Screen and Stage III, is the final part in a series of courses related to the craft of writing scripts for the screen and stage. Students will have mastered paradigms for playwriting scripts and the motion picture screenplay structure. Students will have mastered the basic elements of playwriting. Students will know the concepts developed by successful scriptwriters and playwrights, both Native and non-native. Scripts for the screen/stage will be completed and the best practices for writing techniques and concepts of character development will be mastered and apparent in full-length film/stage scripts created using software that meets the industry’ s standards. An Environmental Scan of the Theater and Motion Picture industry will be required. Students will master the concepts of script writing techniques and explore concepts of character development. The course will include The Writer’s Table Workshop where students will give and receive peer feedback and participate in storytelling, including the Oral Tradition.

Prerequisites: ENGL 303 
Offered: Fall.



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