ENGL2029 — Creative Writing: Screenwriting
ENGL 2029 - Creative Writing: Screenwriting ENGL 2029 - Creative Writing: Screenwriting Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This creative writing class, intended for all students, focuses on the writing and close reading of screenplays. Because creative writing involves both creativity and scholarship, coursework includes: reading screenplays; analyzing and forming aesthetic judgments about screenplays; writing and revising screenplays; form and technique in screenwriting; and responding to the creative work of classmates in a writing community. Special emphasis is placed on understanding screenwriting through a historical and contemporary need for equity, including individual and group differences (e.g. race, gender, class), power dynamics, and discrimination in this field. This course does not fulfill the Literature requirement for the Associate of Arts degree at Century College. MnTC Goals Goals 6 Goal 7A Basic word processing and computer skills. Major Content History of screenwriting select readings and film clips discussion of historical, social, political, and cultural influences unequal power relations between groups (i.e. race, gender, class) written reflections on select screenplays Contemporary screenwriting select readings and film clips discussion of historical, social, political, and cultural influences unequal power relations between groups (i.e. race, gender, class) written reflections on select screenplays Contemporary
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052