Scriptwriting: Plays and Screenplays

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This will be a process-based course in which students will learn to create original writing for the stage and screen. Students will come away with anunderstanding of the basic building blocks of dramatic writing and dramatic structure: action, objective, circumstance, inciting incident, turning points, crisis, climax, etc. Students will learn how to bring themselves to their writing and develop their personal voice. Students will increase their ability to sense what is authentic in their own work and the work of others, and to then generate work that is bold, original, risky and truthful. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102. Three lecture hours per week.Gen. Ed. Competencies Met: Human Expression.