Courses in Screenwriting MFA

Minimum total of 72 units.

130A

Screenwriting Fundamentals

431

Introduction to Film and Television Screenwriting

434

Advanced Screenwriting (to be taken at least four times)

Choose two Film and Television Graduate Seminars below

203

Film and Other Arts

206A

European Film History

206C

American Film History **

207

Experimental Film

208B

Classical Film Theory **

208C

Contemporary Film Theory

209D

Animated Film

217

Television History **

218

Culture, Media and Society

219

Film and Society

220

Television and Society

221

Film Authors

222

Film Genres

223

Visual Perception

270

Film Criticism

271

Television Criticism

276

Non-Western Film

277

Narrative Studies

** courses are sometimes taught as a core course for MA students and may not be available that particular quarter to MFA students.

Students must also choose one other course in the Department that is outside of the screenwritng program as approved by the advisory committee.

A minimum of four feature length screenplays must be completed while enrolled in FTV 434 before advancing to candidacy. This writing is accepted as a body of work for the Masters Thesis requirement and must be approved by the Candidate's Thesis Chair.

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