19 Screenwriting Bachelors Degree Programs

Define your voice as a creative writer by developing the storytelling tools and scriptwriting techniques needed for a rewarding career as a screenwriter in the film, television, and media industries. Learn how to craft engaging stories and complex characters through dialogues and narrative styles that excite audiences across multiple arcs, episodes and seasons.

Whether you are an aspiring Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Film Researcher or Critic, our BA Honours Film is a single flexible degree course that meets the interests and ambitions of a wide variety of students united by a passion for film. At Middlesex, we offer a unique degree experience in Film, not only because the course is designed to be flexible, accommodating very different kinds of film students, but also because it encourages, indeed requires, collaboration between students with different interests, skills and knowledge, which is great preparation for working professionally in the film industry.

The BFA program in Writing for Film, Television & Digital Media will teach you the skills you need to develop engaging characters and scripts. Our program is designed to offer personalized attention to your ideas, with an emphasis on industry expectations and standards. Study in a rigorous, supportive writing workshop environment. Explore original and adapted feature films, television comedy and drama, short films, and writing for other forms of digital media.

A Bachelor's in Screenwriting is designed to prepare students for careers in writing for film, television, and other media. The program focuses on developing storytelling skills, understanding script ...

This bachelor’s degree in Screenwriting offers a practical approach for students interested in writing for film and television. Throughout the course, students develop core skills such as story struct...

The Bachelor in Screenwriting Arts program is designed to help students develop strong storytelling skills for the screen. It emphasizes hands-on experience, allowing students to write and revise scri...

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) program focuses on developing students' storytelling skills for film, television, and digital media. It offers a mix of practical workshops, lectures, and pro...

Whether you have dreams of writing blockbusters, developing documentaries or working with other writers on sitcoms, the online Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Creative Writing and English with a concentration in Screenwriting is an excellent way to hone your writing skills and put your passion to work. The classes in this specialized online screenwriting degree are based on a comprehensive study of creative writing, with a special focus on story structure, character development and the visual medium of film. 

In NYFA’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BA) in Screenwriting, students write every day to train in narrative storytelling, exploring every aspect of writing for television, film, and media. Through hands-on projects and robust coursework, students create compelling stories and develop their creative voice while pursuing a practical, challenging degree in the arts.

This course provides students with a broad programme that develops their creative voice and writing style, while learning how to write step outlines, treatments and scripts for film, television and interactive media.

The first step in filmmaking is the screenplay. This is where the story takes shape. Screenwriters have the difficult task of determining the best way to tell the story, dramatizing it through character, conflict, setting, dialogue, tone, action, and format, making it as real and powerful as possible.

This course is designed for people interested in writing for the screen, including film, television, and radio. It focuses on developing strong storytelling skills, understanding industry practices, a...

Imagine turning your passion for movies into an academic career. The Media Studies program at Mercy College offers a concentration in Film/Culture that interprets various societies through the movies they produce.

This program focuses on developing skills in writing for screen, including film, television, and radio. Students learn to craft compelling stories and characters, understand industry practices, and pr...

Develops and deepens the skills for writing the primary plot idea that will embody in the form of a film script. It offers the technical and aesthetic knowledge necessary to adequately handle basic concepts of narrativity that allow the script to become an unavoidable tool and a starting point for filmmaking.