MASTERS
Professional level courses for the student ready to make a serious commitment in a subject area.
MASTERS
Master's Screenwriter Course
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For the student ready to invest over a year, and make a serious commitment to the authoring of movies.
While studying and dissecting over 60 of the greatest films ever made, the student, through guided exercises, develops several screen properties. For the writer who wants to work as a pro writing screenplays.
Films:
The Birth Of A Nation
Schindler’s List
Metropolis
Forrest Gump
City Lights
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings (2001)
Top Hat
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Thin Man
Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003)
Duck Soup
Spirited Away
Bringing Up Baby
Kill Bill I & II
King Kong (1933)
Love Actually
The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
The Wizard Of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Gone With The Wind
The Rules Of The Game (1939)
Citizen Kane
The Philadelphia Story
Pinocchio
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Third Man
Singin’ In The Rain
The Quiet Man
The Seven Samurai
The Searchers
Wild Strawberries
Gigi
Some Like It Hot
North By Northwest
Ben Hur
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lawrence Of Arabia
Charade
My Fair Lady
8 ½
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
(Tracy, Hepburn, Poitier)
2001, A Space Odyssey
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Day For Night
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Young Frankenstein
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
Annie Hall
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
E.T.
Do The Right Thing
Raise The Red Lantern
JFK
| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| more than 1 year | $120.00 USD | 21556 |
Master's Course in Television Writing
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For Master's students in writing, who have decided to specialize in writing for TV.
Learn all about the details of this most popular communication's media in the history of the world. For the serious student ready to invest a year or more into an intensive study of the most powerful art form of the 20th century.
Television:
Star Trek
The first episode (pilot)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The first episode (pilot)
All In The Family
The first episode (pilot)
Cheers
The first episode (pilot)
Dallas
The first episode (pilot)
West Wing
The first episode (pilot)
The Honeymooners
(two episodes)
I Love Lucy
(two episodes)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(two episodes)
Gunsmoke
(two episodes)
The Twilight Zone
(two episodes, from the first series only)
The Flintstones
(two episodes)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
(two episodes)
Bewitched
(two episodes)
Star Trek
(two episodes, other than the pilot)
MASH
(two episodes)
The Carol Burnett Show
(two episodes)
Gilligan's Island
(two episodes)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(two episodes)
The Tonight Show
with Johnny Carson (two hours)
Bonanza
(two episodes)
Saturday Night Live
(two episodes)
The Simpsons
(two episodes)
60 Minutes
(two episodes)
Sesame Street
(two episodes)
All In The Family
(two episodes)
Dallas
(two episodes, Not the pilot.)
Hill Street Blues
(two episodes)
Cheers
(two episodes)
The Cosby Show
(two episodes)
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
(two episodes)
Friends
(two episodes)
Seinfeld
(two episodes)
Everybody Loves Raymond
(two episodes)
Sex and the City
(two episodes)
West Wing
(two episodes, Not the pilot.)
two episodes of a daytime soap opera (like "All My Children", or "One Life to
Live")
two nights of the nightly network news
two sporting events
two game shows
two episodes of a reality show (like "Survivor", or "Wife Swap".)
| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| N/A | $120.00 USD | 21555 |
Master's Course in Short Stories and Novels
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For the serious student author, ready to invest a year or more into mastering the art and craft of writing novels and short stories.
Through a study of the art of writing, and carefully crafted exercises, the student masters the art of writing novels and short stories.
Books:
"Chameleon"
(by Anton Chekhov)
"An Upheaval"
(by Anton Chekhov)
"A Little Cloud"
(by James Joyce)
"Young Goodman Brown"
(by Nathaniel Hawthorne)
"Little Herr Friedemann"
(by Thomas Mann)
"The Masque of the Red Death"
(by Edgar Allan Poe)
"The Cask of Amontillado"
(by Edgar Allan Poe)
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
(by Mark Twain)
"The Gift of the Magi"
(by O’ Henry)
"The Canterville Ghost"
(by Oscar Wilde)
"Sonny’s Blues"
(by James Baldwin)
"A Tale of Two Cities"
(by Charles Dickens)
"The Hound of the Baskervilles"
(by Conan Doyle)
"The Old Man and the Sea"
(by Hemingway)
"Daisy Miller"
(by James)
"The Jungle Book"
(by Kipling)
"A Christmas Carol"
(by Charles Dickens)
"A Tale of Two Cities"
(by Charles Dickens)
"The Metamorphosis"
(by Kafka)
"The Martian Chronicles"
(by Ray Bradbury)
"Crime and Punishment"
(by Dostoyevski)
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
(by Mark Twain)
"The Time Machine"
(by H.G. Wells)
"Of Mice and Men"
(by John Steinbeck)
"Slaughterhouse Five"
(by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| more than 1 year | $100.00 USD | 21600 |
Master's Poet and Lyricist Course
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From Keats to Shakespeare to e. e. cummings , Gilbert and Sullivan to the Beatles to Sondheim , the great art of poetry and lyrics is dissected and mastered.
For the student ready to invest a year or more into mastering this profound and eternal art form, authored by a oft-produced lyricist.
Books:
"An Introduction to Poetry"
11th Edition, by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia
"The Ultimate Broadway Fake Book"
4th Edition, Hal Leonard Publishing
Plays:
The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon
Films:
Topsy-Turvy
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Oklahoma
(any Complete Version)
My Fair Lady
(Harrison-Hepburn)
Singin' In The Rain
Guys And Dolls
(Brando-Sinatra)
Jesus Christ, Superstar
(any version)
Sweeny Todd
(starring Len Cariou & Angela Landsbury)
Rent
| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| more than 1 year | $120.00 USD | 21558 |
Master's Course in Creative Nonfiction
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For students ready to invest a year or more into a professional writing career, specialized in the authoring of creative non-fiction, such as grants, textbooks, promotion and advertising, serious studies, and the like.
(Not applicable, no materials)
| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| more than 1 year | $120.00 USD | 21601 |
Master's Course in Playwriting
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For students ready to wofrk toward a professional career as a playwright, and prepared to invest a year or more into their studies. learn the history and craft of this oldest of written forms of literature, and follow in the tradition of Sophocles and Shakespeare .
Books:
"The Stage In Action"
by Samuel Selden
"Tragedy and Comedy"
by Walter Kerr
"The Empty Space"
by Peter Brook
"The Shifting Point"
by Peter Brook
Plays:
Twelfth Night
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
Romeo & Juliet
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
Julius Caesar
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
King Lear
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
Hamlet
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
Twelfth Night
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
Macbeth
Publisher: Barrons editions of Shakespeare's plays
Riders to the Sea
by John M. Synge
The Marriage Proposal
by Anton Chekhov
The Emperor Jones
by Eugene O' Neill
Coming Through The Rye
by William Saroyan
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
by Thornton Wilder
No Exit
by John-Paul Sartre
The Dumb Waiter
by Harold Pinter
The Leader
by Eugene Ionesco
Krapp's Last Tape
by Samuel Beckett
The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
Oedipus, The King
by Sophocles
Medea
by Euripides
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
The Crock of Gold
by Plautus
Tamburlaine
by Christopher Marlowe
Volpone
by Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
by Ben Jonson
The Misanthrope
by Moliere
Tartuffe
by Moliere
The School For Wives
by Moliere
The Sheep Well
by Lope De Vega
Life Is A Dream
by Calderon De La Barca
Phaedra
by Jean Racine
El Cid
by Pierre Corneille
The Way of the World
by William Congreve
She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
The School for Scandal
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Faust, Part One
by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
The Importance of Being Ernest
by Oscar Wilde
A Month In The Country
by Ivan Turgenev
A Doll's House
by Henrick Ibsen
An Enemy of the People
by Henrick Ibsen
The Sea Gull
by Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
The Ghost Sonata
by August Strindberg
The Inspector General
by Nikolai Gogol
The Lower Depths
by Maxim Gorki
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw
Cock-A-Doodle Dandy
by Sean O'Casey
Juno and the Paycock
by Sean O'Casey
Six Characters In Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
Blithe Spirits
by Noel Coward
The Madwoman of Chaillot
by Jean Giraudoux
Thieves Carnival
by Jean Anouilh
Mother Courage and her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
The Good Person of Setzuan
by Bertolt Brecht
Winterset
by Maxwell Anderson
The Little Foxes
by Lillian Hellman
You Can't Take It With You
by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
by William Inge
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder
The Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Look Back In Anger
by John Osborne
Waiting For Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
A Man For All Seasons
by Robert Bolt
A Raisin In The Sun
by Lorraine Hansbury
The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
by Edward Albee
The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter
Indians
by Arthur Kopit
Equus
by Peter Schaffer
Love! Valour! Compassion!
by Terence McNally
Absurd Person
Singular, by Alan Aykbourn
Master Harold...and the Boys
by Athol Fugard
Hurlyburly
by David Rabe
The House of Blue Leaves
by John Guare
Fences
by August Wilson
The Heidi Chronicles
by Wendy Wasserstein
Glengarry Glen Ross
by David Mamet
Angels In America
by Tony Kushner
| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| more than 1 year | $120.00 USD | 21599 |
