Six-Week Spring 2026
Visual Storytelling Course
You can learn to write for film and television from anywhere in the world with Writing for the Screen, an introductory screenwriting course offered fully online. Explore the principles and processes that will help bring your stories to life.
Course Dates: March 23 - May 1, 2026
Enrollment Deadline: March 2, 2026
Outcomes
- Understand film language
- Conceptualize and structure an original movie idea into a narrative
- Complete a treatment for full length screenplay and 10-page script
Lecture Topics
- Three Act Structure
- Formatting Screenplays
- Conflict - Structures of a Scene
- Character
- Beginnings and Endings
Course Format
- 100% Online
- Asynchronous (no designated meeting time)
- 1:1 synchronous meetings with your instructor
- Synchronous real-time video sessions with classmates