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Screenwriting with the Mystics
HDS 3323

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Description

Screenwriting with the Mystics asks how mystical traditions can illuminate the dramatic at the heart of storytelling. Students study character, desire, conflict, and resolution alongside concepts of longing, trial, annihilation, and return. Readings will include Hollywood screenplays, screenwriting texts such as Robert McKee’s Story, and mystical narratives; examples may include Majnun Layla, The Lost Princess, and The Dark Night of the Soul. Through reading, film analysis, and screenwriting workshops, students explore how traditions can inform contemporary storytelling while developing work from their own religious, ethical, or intellectual inquiry. The course culminates in an original short screenplay grounded in each student’s own practice and designed for feasible production.

School Harvard Divinity School
Credits 4
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Course Component Seminar
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HDS Student Option (LG/SUS)
MTS/ThM Area of Focus Religion, Literature, and Culture
Religion and the Social Sciences
Religious Thought, Philosophy, and Theology
Arts of Ministry Peacebuilding and Just Conflict Resolution
Public Leadership, Comm Organizing, and Planning
Preaching and Worship
Religious Education and Spiritual Development
Racial Justice and Healing
MDiv Histories, Theologies, and Practices Non-Tradition Specific
Language Course Type N/A
Language Taught N/A
MDiv Scriptural Interpretation N/A
Course Level N/A