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B.F.A. in dramatic writing

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Foundation studies: 25 hours

  • FOUN 110 Design Thinking and Process
  • FOUN 111 Sketching and Drawing
  • FOUN 112 Color in Context
  • FOUN 113 Creative Collaboration Lab
  • FOUN 251 Time Based Design: Story, Sound, and Movement

General education: 55 hours

  • COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
  • BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
  • CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
  • CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
  • ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
  • DIGI 130 Digital Communication
  • Select one of these two options:

  • ENGL 142 Foundations of Story
  • ENGL elective
  • 200- to 300-level CINE elective
  • General education elective
  • General education elective
  • Mathematics/natural sciences elective

Major curriculum: 80 hours

  • Select one of these two options:
  • FILM 100 Digital Film Production: Story to Screen
  • FILM 115 Preproduction: From Concept to Set
  • DWRI 106 Introduction to Screenwriting
  • Select one of these two options:

  • ACT 170 Truth in Acting: The Methods
  • ACT 199 Acting for the Camera: Fundamentals
  • Select one of these two options:

  • WRIT 178 The Short Story
  • ACT 201 Survey of Performance
  • DWRI 237 Improvisation for Writers
  • DWRI 272 Introduction to Playwriting
  • DWRI 305 Script Analysis for Film and Television
  • DWRI 310 Survey of American Television
  • DWRI 315 Feature Film Screenwriting: Outline and Development
  • DWRI 355 Spectrum of Storytelling: Interactive and Immersive Narratives
  • Select one of these two options:

  • DWRI 384 Writing the Television Comedy Spec Script
  • DWRI 388 Writing the Television Drama Spec Script
  • DWRI 415 Feature Film Screenwriting: Completion and Revision
  • Select one of these two options:

  • DWRI 434 Writing the Television Comedy Pilot Script
  • DWRI 438 Writing the Television Drama Pilot Script
  • DWRI 495 Dramatic Writing Senior Project and Professional Development
  • Select one of these three options:

  • DWRI 479 Undergraduate Internship
  • 500-level SCADpro elective
  • Business-focused elective
  • DWRI elective

Additional electives: 20 hours

  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective

Total course of study: 180 hours

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