Writing for Dramatic Media Graduate Certificate Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate a professional on-page formatting technique.
2. Explain why the various formatting choices are put in use.
3. Execute a verbal “pitch.”
4. Collaborate on a verbal “pitch.”
5. Identify story elements in the “pitch” and distinguish their effectiveness.
6. Revise all of the work presented, in response to critical analysis.
7. Recognize the structural strengths and weaknesses of completed written drafts of scripts.
8. Communicate, in a collegial manner, critical analysis of work presented by the cohort.
9. Create to create a work of dramatic media from inception,, pitch, firt draft and subsequent drafts in the most professional manner possible.
10. Create a personal collection of written works fro various dramatic media (plays, screenplays, teleplays, webisodes, mobisodes, game scripting, etc…). Each candidate in the certificate program will complete the program with two feature screenplays in some stage of development and at least one other full-length work (which may also be a feature screenplay, or work in another of the dramatic media.)