Course Description
Planning, writing, and polishing the short script for performance.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Additional writing assignments.
Athena Title
Dramatic Writing I
Prerequisite
THEA 3020 or THEA 3020E
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The course is intended to give the student the experience of working in the manner of a professional dramatist. That entails doing all the things professional dramatists do: maintaining notebooks, accomplishing dramatic sketches and exercises, planning plays with the use of a scenario or a treatment, and completing one short stage or screen play through its polishing draft. Graduate students also carry out at least one draft of a second short play.
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.
Syllabus