Part-Time Faculty: Screenwriting (Spring 2025)

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University is seeking an individual to teach TRF 211.3 Screenwriting during the Spring 2025 semester (1/13-5/6) which meets Mondays and Wednesdays 5:15pm-6:35 pm (3 credits).

Course Description: This course explores the craft of writing involved in motion picture, television and digital media storytelling through in-depth study and practice. Students write exercises in scene/story structure, sequence, character development, dialogue and short scripts, with the emphasis on becoming a better storyteller and effectively expressing your story through the script. Students learn to be responsible storytellers of fiction, non-fiction and everything in between and consider how best to engage audiences and help them better appreciate our complex contemporary times. Students also develop critical skills in analyzing diverse dramatic fare, both as script and on the screen; contemporary screenwriters and their work; and how to protect original work.

(no class on January 20th – Martin Luther King Jr. Day and no class on March 10th – Spring Break)