Planning, writing, and polishing the short script for performance.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Additional writing assignments.
Athena Title
Intermediate Dramatic Writing
Prerequisite
THEA 3020 or THEA 3020E
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will develop habits of the professional dramatist, including maintaining notebooks, composing dramatic sketches, and planning plays.
Students will compose a short script for performance over the course of the semester. Creative writing is a high-level synthesis activity, in which students bring together their thoughts about the world and express them in dramatic form.
Students will reflect upon and critically review their own work and the dramatic works of others, using their analysis skills developed through the reading of professional playwrights' dramatic works to self-assess and give productive feedback to their peers for revision.
Topical Outline
I. Basic principles of dramatic writing.
II. Writing for the stage.
III. Writing for the screen.
IV. Maintaining of the writer's notebook.
V. Exercises in dramatic writing.
VI. Review of the first draft.
VII. Review of second, third and fourth drafts.
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Creativity & Innovation
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
