Creative Writing at the University of Oregon




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		Zero Week CRWR 410 Writing TV Drama June 16 - June 23, MTWUF, 8:00am - 12:00 & 1:00 - 5:00pm, 4 credits Instructor: Michael Cassutt This week-long intensive course will replicate the real intensive experience of the “writer’s room’” on a TV drama. The class will begin with the genuine pilot episode of a drama to aired in the 2008 season. Students will conceive and pitch a follow-on storyline, develop an outline, and write a portion of the script. Each day will consist of an hour of screening, at least an hour of lecture, and detailed analysis of television drama. This will include the history of TV drama, from live productions of the Golden Age (1948-1960), the mass appeal genre works that dominated the 1960s-1970s, and the socially-daring, more experimental series aired since market expansion in 1987, such as The Sopranos, House, and Lost. A final project, consisting of a substantial TV script, will be required. Eight Week Session (every other week) CRWR 199 Special Studies Time, Scenes, and Flashbacks July 21 - 25, MTWUF, 6:00 - 7:50pm, 1 credit Instructor: Leslie Barnard Examines the elements of scene, summary, flashbacks, backstory, and transitions. CRWR 199 Special Studies Plot, Narrative, Drive, and Structure July 7 - 11, MTWUF, 6:00 - 7:50pm, 1 credit Instructor: Leslie Barnard Examines three separate, yet interdependent elements of fiction and the options and obstacles they present to the writer. CRWR 199 Special Studies Character and Point of View June 23 - 27, MTWUF, 6:00 - 7:50pm, 1 credit Instructor: Leslie Barnard Whose story is it, which character should tell the story, and what does your character desire? CRWR 199 Special Studies Style, Detail, and Dialogue August 4 - 8, MTWUF, 6:00 - 7:50pm, 1 credit Instructor: Leslie Barnard Explores how style derives from words chosen and sentences crafted; how dialogue defines character. First 4-week Session CRWR 199 Special Studies Fiction Workshop June 23 - July 17, MTWU, 3:00 - 5:20pm, 4 credits Instructor: Jennifer Kepka Concentration on student fi ction writing. Second 4-week Session CRWR 199 Special Studies Poetry Workshop July 21 - August 14, MTWU, 3:00 - 5:20pm, 4 credits Instructor: Drea Brown Concentration on student poems. Return to top




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