Section Info: FMT-240PW-01

Course Title: Intermediate Courses in Production and Practice: 'Playwriting'
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025
Term: Fall 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 theater, 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 , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Olivia Clement Finch Finch             ofinch@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   Seminar   Tuesday and Thursday   10:30AM - 11:45AM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: One course in Film Media Theater, or Theater Arts, or a creative writing English course. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Cannot be taken at the 300 level.  
Course Tags        
FMT0003   FMT-PR: Production/Performance   This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Production/Performance area.  

Cross-listed Sections        
FMT-240PW-01 Playwriting  
ENGL-205-01 Playwriting  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 12     Enrollment: 11     Available: 0     Waitlist: 8
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.