Description: Pre- requisite(s): CWPA 264 or CWPA 266. Examines the theory and practice of acting to enable writers to better understand how language reflects character, as well as how actors turn the written word into spoken lan- guage. Includes text work and improvisation. Credit is Course Requirements Minimum requirements consist of 56 units of course work (12 courses) and 8 units of master’s thesis or manuscript project. The core curriculum includes the fol- lowing: 1. Students in the Creative Writing Track (fiction, nonfiction and poetry) are required to take six workshop courses in their chosen genre (18 units total). Students in the Writing for Performance Arts Track (playwriting and screenwriting) are required to take four workshop courses in their chosen genre (12 units). 2. CWPA 201 (4 units) 3. Two graduate seminars from Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts (8 units). 4. Two graduate seminars from any department(s) outside of Theatre and Creative Writing. Seminar subject matter should be relevant to student’s thesis or manuscript project. Requirement can be met with upper-division courses, with instructor and graduate advisor approval, as an appropriate 292 course (8 units). 5. Three electives in workshop, graduate seminar or thesis or manuscript, with the following limitations: Students may take a maximum of six workshops (24 units) within their chosen genre, and a maximum of 16 thesis or manuscript units within the normative time to degree (six terms). Students are encouraged to take seminars or cross-genre workshops, as available; elective thesis or manuscript units beyond the 8 required units must be approved by the student’s thesis or manuscript advisor and graduate advisor (12 units). 6. Thesis or manuscript (8 units) In the areas of playwriting and screenwriting, the final written project is a full-length play of two or three acts (90-130 pages) or screenplay or teleplay (approximately 130 pages). In the areas of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, the final written project is a poetry collection, novel, short story collection, or essay collection. Each student is paired with one or two faculty members who serve as thesis advisor(s). Two faculty readers, in addition to the advisor(s), evaluate the thesis work. The length of the final project breaks down as follows: Poetry 40 – 65 pages, Fiction 100 – 150 pages, Creative Non-fiction 100 – 150 pages, screenplay, teleplay or play 90 – 130 pages. Normative Time to Degree Main campus: 6 quarters; Palm Desert Low Residency Program Consists of workshops in chosen genres and course work culminating in a final project (the master’s thesis or manuscript) which showcases the writer’s cultivated talents, in the form of a poetry collection, novel, short story collection, essay collection, memoir, full-length work of nonfiction, screenplay, or full-length play. The M.F.A. requires students to write in two genres, allowing for creative movement Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts theatre and culture through the works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), an Irish, feminist, aesthete, socialist, homosexual Victorian author. Includes readings of Wil- de’s plays and nondramatic writings as well as plays by contemporaries such as Ibsen and Shaw.