SWAN 335 - Introduction to Screenwriting

3 Credits
Three lecture hours. one lab hours.

This course is required of all SWAN majors. The course emphasizes the narrative structure of films and development of the professional screenwriter’s vocabulary for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing their own work. Course requires lecture and screenings, and applied theory and practice. Students are required to develop and write the first draft of an original screenplay. The course also surveys the business and entrepreneurship of writing for film television for both union and independent studios. Final Draft software is provided in SWAN labs.

Prerequisite(s) SWAN 230 or permission of Instructor.
Offered (FALL/SPRING).