The structure of our professional training certificate programs is deliberately designed to follow a progression of courses. All students are required to take, along with our first year M.F.A. playwrights, Narrative Theory and Practice (which covers terms and principals of playwriting) and Playscript Analysis (which provides a baseline of important dramatic works and how to approach discussing them in a dramaturgical fashion). These two courses are required the first summer so that all first years have an opportunity to form a peer group and gain a common language for all the course work which will follow.
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