| Course Title: Playwriting |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: This course offers practice in the fundamentals of dramatic structure and technique. Weekly reading assignments will examine the unique nature of writing for the theatre, nuts and bolts of format, tools of the craft, and the playwright's process from formulating a dramatic idea to rewriting. Weekly writing assignments will include scene work, adaptation, and journaling. The course will culminate in a significant writing project. Each class meeting will incorporate reading student work aloud with feedback from the instructor and the class. Students will listen, critique, and develop the vocabulary to discuss plays, structure, story, and content. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Jonathan Yukich | jyukich@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | THEA - Rooke Theatre | 105 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: One course in Film Media Theater or Theatre Arts or a creative writing English course. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Cannot be taken at the 300 level. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| FMT-240PW-01 Playwriting |
| ENGL-205-01 Playwriting |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 12 | Enrollment: 12 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |