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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to give developing fiction writers an understanding of the publishing industry. Attention is given to the history of fiction publishing in the United States and ongoing changes in the industry. The responsibilities of, and relationships among, writers, editors, literary agents, and publishing houses are explored. Students conduct in-depth research of fiction magazines and publishing houses. Students form their own in-class magazine and submit their work to the other student editors of the magazine. The course is designed for students working towards readying stories for submission. Students are encouraged to send their manuscripts out for publication at intervals during the semester. Guest speakers include bookstore owners, editors, publishers, and published fiction writers. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Workshop builds on the original science fiction class, focusing on writing skills and techniques unique to the genre. Students practice generating story ideas, tempering imagination with logic, thinking in terms of the future and its multiple possibilities, selecting appropriate characters, and constructing plausible plots. Readings include collected short stories of science fiction master Alfred Bester and individual works by Robert Heinlein, C.M. Kornbluth, and others. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES:55-4311 SCIENCE FICTION WRITING
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4.00 Credits
In this class, students will explore the many facets of fantasy fiction, from heroic fantasy to contemporary fantasy to horror. Students will read classic short stories of the genre, with class discussion focusing on structure, content, the use of imagination combined with plausibility, and how these qualities apply to the student's own writing. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the basic techniques of structure and dialogue in playwriting. Written exercises must be submitted and discussed to identify dramatic events. Students will initiate the development of a one-act play or the first act of a three-act play. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
The internet provides a wealth of writing and publishing opportunities employing a wider range of skills and techniques than is found in print publishing. This course provides students with basic, hands-on training in order to complete interactive storytelling as well as an exploration of prose forms that adapt readily for Web venues. These projects will include text, creating and preparing images for the Web, planning the flow of a site, and designing pages, as well as creating internal and external links. Students read and view examples from the internet, compare these with print media, and write with these differences in mind. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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3.00 Credits
Students will read and analyze a variety of novels that have been adapted into films. They will also read the scripts based on these works of prose and learn how to do coverage, a standard practice used throughout the studio system. They will also view the films based on these published works. The students will then participate in weekly Q & A sessions with the screenwriters who originally adapted the above material, gaining first-hand knowledge and insight into the adaptation process. Prose and script coverage will be used to analyze different adaptation approaches and will serve as practice for entry-level positions in story editing or development offices in L.A. 3 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
Students in the program will take part in a lecture series, which will include authors, screenwriters, and producers who have either sold their published works to Hollywood or who have adapted published works for Hollywood. Other guest speakers will include entertainment attorneys and agents who will discuss the legalities of optioning and adapting pre-existing material. There will be almost 40 guest speakers in all. 3 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
Students develop a completed work of prose (novel, short story, magazine article, etc.) into an expanded outline, then into a detailed treatment for the screen. The outlining process will involve breaking down the prose, streamlining it into visual and essential pieces of dialogue, then registering the outline at the WGA (which will be a stop on one of our tours). A professional story editor/development executive will then collect an outline from each student, do coverage, then have an individual meeting with each student to discuss vital story points. Based on feedback from the story editor, each student will revise his/her outline, then develop it into a full-length treatment (10-20 pages). Each student will pitch his/her treatments to development executives/producers at the end of the five-week program. 3 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
This section of the program is designed to help students better understand the process of optioning copyrighted work by published authors. 3 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
This specialization provides increasingly intensive training in the theory and pedagogical approaches of the Story Workshop approach to the teaching of writing. Students begin in Practice Teaching: Tutor Training by tutoring Fiction Writing undergraduates at Columbia College Chicago, and then in Practice Teaching: Outreach move to teaching in a variety of community outreach programs under the auspices of the Fiction Writing Department (often carried out in conjunction with the Center for Community Arts Partnership), either in community arts organizations or in elementary and secondary schools. 3 CREDITS
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