Skip to main content

Topics in Media Writing (360-0-70)

Topic

Writing the Series

Instructors

Dana Jamil Atrach

Meeting Info

Northwestern Qatar Room 1-212: Tues, Su 10:00AM - 11:15AM (AST)

Overview of class

This course will provide students with the skills to create and write a serialized show. Students will be tasked with pitching and outlining a series. This class will be taught in the format of a collaborative writer's room, where we will work together to draft and write a complete 8-episode show. We will look at plot, structure, character relationships and conflict that will propel a show through the first and following seasons.

Registration Requirements


  • Prerequisites: MIT 260-0

  • Open to sophomores and above, MIT majors only

  • Students who completed MIT 360-0 Topics in Media Writing: Writing the TV Series should not enroll in this course

  • MIT Technical-Practical Course

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: NUQ: MIT Majors only, Sophomores and above whom have completed MIT 260-0