New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Asia Dramatic Writing Department offers concentrations in Playwriting, Screenwriting, and Television Writing taught by a faculty of teachers, all of whom are working professionals in their fields. The two-year, 64 – 72 credit, Master of Fine Arts program emphasizes the cross-training of dramatists. Students develop foundational experience in all mediums of Dramatic Writing with concentration in one particular medium.
 
The first semester of the program offers a prescribed curriculum to all students. During the second semester, writers choose a specialty area and enroll in an intense workshop and lab focusing exclusively on playwriting, screenwriting or television writing. Writers devote much of the rest of their course of study to their chosen concentration, as well as being cross-trained in other areas of writing.

• First Year, Fall Semester
• First Year, Spring Semester (Choice of an additional writing workshop):
• First Year, Spring Semester (In addition to choice of workshop):
• Second Year, Fall Semester
• Second Year, Spring Semester

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• First Year, Fall Semester
• Film Story Analysis (Text Analysis Film I)
• Forms of Drama (Text Analysis Theater I)
• Graduate Playwriting Workshop I
• Graduate Screenwriting Workshop I
• Writer's Drama Lab

• First Year, Spring Semester (Choice of an additional writing workshop):
• Graduate Playwriting Workshop II
• Television Writing: Intro to 1/2 Hour Comedy

• First Year, Spring Semester (In addition to choice of workshop):
• Elective
• Film Script Analysis II
• Forms of Drama II
• Graduate Screenwriting Workshop II
• Screenwriting Lab

• Second Year, Fall Semester
• Collaborative Film
• Genres: Film
• Independent Study
• Intro to One Hour Drama (Television Writing)
• MFA Thesis I: Screenwriting

• Second Year, Spring Semester
• Advanced Television
• Elective
• Graduate Seminar in Close Analysis
• Independent Study
• MFA Thesis Course II: Screenwriting
• Professional Colloquium