The scriptwriting minor, designed for undergraduate students who are not majors in the School of Communications, consists of a survey course in communications (MSS 101), a hands-on video production course (FVI/MEP 105), a media history course (MSS 220), a film theory course (FVI/MEP 340) and two courses in the art and craft of writing the screenplay (FVI/MEP 372 and FVI/MEP 472). On completion, this minor can result in the authorship of a full-length screenplay of the student’s invention.

This minor is not available to students majoring in the School of Communications.

Minor Requirements (18 credits):
MSS 101 Introduction to Media Communications (3 credits)
FVI/MEP 105 Video Essentials--News (3 credits)
MSS 220 Media History (3 credits)
FVI/MEP 340 Analysis of the Moving Image (3 credits)
FVI/MEP 372 Scriptwriting (3 credits)
FVI/MEP 495 Senior Project--Scriptwriting (3 credits)