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In this innovative learning experience, students will have an opportunity to engage with Oscar-nominated film and television screenwriter Jeremy Pikser (Bulworth) and veteran executive producer Erica Motley (FX’s Taboo) as they develop a “limited series” concept and outline for six one-hour dramas about writer James Baldwin’s “exile” from the US in Paris between 1948 and 1964. The students will operate as a research and discussion collective in what would essentially be an apprentice, or intern relationship with the faculty members (similar to law students working on a case or art students working on a large installation with a senior professor). Through their direct involvement with the writer and producer, students will gain invaluable first hand experience of the creative and practical process of developing a historically-based limited (or “mini”) series for television.