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This intensive writing course is designed to provide students with a broad foundation in the fundamentals of screenwriting and visual storytelling, from idea to story to structure, character, dialogue, and beyond. Readings, screenings, and weekly writing assignments will provide students with the basic theory and practice of screenwriting as an art and a craft, contextualize the form within the history of storytelling, and enable students to put that knowledge to practical use in the development of their own feature-length screenplay. This craft elective is open to fiction and nonfiction students, but nonfiction students should be prepared to develop a fictional feature rather than any documentary work.