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Oct 23, 2026
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ENGL 2251 - Creative Writing for Stage and Screen
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course provides students an opportunity to write literary scripts for the stage and screen. Guided by instruction in contemporary aesthetics, students will develop disciplined writing and revising practices. Students will also engage in the creative and analytical process of reading as writers, responding to both published and student texts in writing and in class discussion.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): ENGL 1120 or ENGL 1121
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: A student who has not met the necessary prerequisites for the course, but strongly possesses the abilities necessary to complete the course successfully, should contact the instructor directly
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 01C: Communication, Goal 06A: The Humanities and Fine Arts
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Read, discuss, and critique a broad selection of texts, including scripts in various genres, with a focus on analyzing form and technique in order to guide and inform one’s own creative work.
- Identify contemporary techniques in literary screen and playwriting.
- Understand the creative process and practice techniques for prewriting, writing, revising, and editing their creative work.
- Understand writing for different audiences.
- Understand the contemporary literary aesthetics and standards of literary writing for the stage and screen.
- Participate in large and small workshops and be able to respond critically and analytically to written work, and practice this critical analysis of one’s own writing.
- Understand that excellent contemporary literary stage and screen writing derives from both individual and cultural values that are shaped by broader social, historical, and aesthetic standards and movements.
- Students will be expected to produce a body of revised, polished stage and screen writing that will culminate in a final portfolio of 20-30 pages.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Overview of the creative process
- Explore techniques for discovering and creating material
- Overview of traditional narrative structure
- Overview of experimental narrative structures
- Explore methods for focusing tension in narrative
- Practice methods in showing versus telling/voice-over
- Develop and control figurative language and imagery
- Control point of view
- Shape and revise drafts based on peer and instructor feedback
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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