Workshop: Playwriting

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Overview

Subject code

JRN

Course Number

3630

Department(s)

Description

This course provides beginning and advanced playwrights with practical techniques for developing works for the stage. Concentrating on the dynamics of live human interaction as the substance of drama, the course emphasizes the structure of action and examines examples from a wide range of dramatic styles. Students learn how dialogue, character, spectacle, and thought take on meaning in live experience of the theatrical event. They sketch scenarios, flesh them into drafts, and revise and rewrite those drafts into scripts for their production. The course helps playwrights achieve their own styles. Regular conferences. This course is equivalent to THE 3052 and ENG 3630. Students will receive credit for JRN 3630, THE 3052, or ENG 3630.

Career

Undergraduate

Credits

Value

3

Max

3

Min

3

Course Count

1

Number Of Credits

3

Number Of Repeats

1

Repeatable

No

Contact Use

Yes

Generate Attendance

No

Left Use

Yes

Present Use

Yes

Reason Use

Yes

Tardy Use

Yes

Template Override

No

Time Use

Yes

Attendance Type

Class Meeting

Auto Create

No

Code

LEC

Instructor Contact Hours

3

Default Section Size

35

Final Exam Type

Yes

Include in Dynamic Date Calc

No

Instruction Mode

In Person

LMS File Type

Blackboard CourseInfo 4

Name

Lecture

OEE Workload Hours

0

Optional Component

No

Preferred Room Features

Academic Scheduling

Workload Hours

3