ProgramCIP 50.0504

Playwriting and Screenwriting

A program that focuses on the principles and techniques for communicating dramatic information, ideas, moods, and feelings through the composition of creative written works for the theatre, film, and/or television. Includes instruction in creative writing craft, scene writing, script development, stage and/or camera instructions, line and moment analysis, script reading, script editing, and the creation of full productions.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Dramatic Writing, Writing for Screen and Television.