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Screenwriting: Model Four-Year Plan
- Normal course load is 15 semester hours or 5 courses per semester.
- Consult your advisor regarding proper course sequencing and course selection for the major.
- Suggested sequence, but students often take courses in a modified order.
- All students must complete six flags to graduate. Each student is responsible for ensuring she/he fulfills all graduation requirements.
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Freshman Year
Fall Semester
- FTVS 200 Survey of Mass Media (3 semester hours)
- FTVS 210 Art of the Cinema (3 semester hours) or
- FTVS 212 Art of Television (3 semester hours)
- FFYS 1000 First Year Seminar (3 OR 4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 12-14 semester hours
Spring Semester
- PROD 200 Introduction to Film Production (3 semester hours)
- RHET 1000 Rhetorical Arts (3 OR 4 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 15-18 semester hours
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Sophomore Year
Fall Semester
- SCWR 220 Beginning Screenwriting (3 semester hours) (* must earn B or better)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 12-15 semester hours
Spring Semester
- FTVS 313 History of American Film (3 semester hours) or
- FTVS 314 History of International Film (3 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 15-19 semester hours
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Junior Year
Fall Semester
- SCWR 320 Intermediate Screenwriting (3 semester hours)
- FTVS Upper Division Elective (3 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 15-18 semester hours
Spring Semester
- SCWR 321 Rewriting the Feature (3 semester hours)
- SCWR 325 Writing the TV Situation Comedy (3 semester hours) or
- SCWR 426 Writing One-Hour Episodic TV (3 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 15-18 semester hours
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Senior Year
Fall Semester
- SCWR 329 Directing for Screenwriters (3 semester hours)
- SCWR 420 Senior Writing Project (3 semester hours)
- University Core (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 12-14 semester hours
Spring Semester
- SCWR 421 Rewriting the Senior Writing Project (3 semester hours)
- SCWR 428 Adaptation: One Medium to Another (3 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
- Elective (3-4 semester hours)
Total: 15-18 semester hours