ENG 307 - Advanced Playwriting Workshop

Course unit(s): 1
Prerequisite(s): ENG 207 - Introduction to Playwriting or ENG 227 Introduction to Fiction Writing .
An intensive course in the craft of playwriting in which writers comment on each other’s work, focusing on the elements and structure of a play (character, action, spectacle, diction, “music”, thought), dramatic forms and conventions (monologue, farce, melodrama, comedy, tragedy), selected published plays, and attending theatrical performances, all culminating in staged readings of selected student work and submission of a portfolio. Satisfies departmental Social Justice and Drama/Transmedia requirements.