Bachelor degrees in Playwriting and Screenwriting: A program that focuses on the principles and techniques for communicating dramatic information, ideas, moods, and feelings through the composition of creative written works for the theatre and/or film. Includes instruction in creative writing craft, scene writing, script development, stage and/or camera instructions, line and moment analysis, script reading, script editing, and the creation of full productions
Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor degree
Playwriting | Columbia University in the City of New York |
The playwriting program takes a pragmatic approach, stressing the process and development of a writer's skills. The philosophy of the program is based on the idea that the work must come from within the playwright. In order to write honestly, the writer must be able to make a connection between the conflicts in the play and those in his or her own emotional life. The fundamental approach in the classroom is through a series of sense-memory exercises... |
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