The major in scriptwriting provides students with a structured approach to understanding the craft of writing scripts for film, television, and other electronic media. By analyzing scripts and producing their own creative work, students learn character development, plot, structure, suspense, and tension, as well as the conventions of various genres.

Successful graduates of this program will be able to: * use appropriate industry standard for format * employ the elements of storytelling for visual media (action, image, dialogue) * demonstrate effective structural strategies * present engaging characters * combine suspense, tension and other techniques to affect an audience's emotional response