Course Description
Students will focus on a question of style, structure, technique, or ethics in screenwriting. Students will explore this question by creating and completing a reading list and writing a critical essay of publishable length that examines a screenwriter, a body of work, or the screenwriter's own work.
Athena Title
Screenplay Craft III
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
JNMW 6100E or JNMW 6101E or JNMW 6102E or JNMW 6103E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Throughout the semester students will work on a single critical essay. The essay will explore a question of style, structure, technique or ethics; critique a particular screenwriter, a body of work, or individual script; or analyze the writer's own work from a particular theoretical or historical prospective.
Topical Outline
I. Writing the scholarly paper. II. Researching in depth in how to do effective theoretical and historical investigation. III. Writing the annotated bibliography. IV. Selecting a focused topic for a research paper. V. Applying knowledge acquired in the preceding three courses to writing the term paper.