FILM TV 33Introductory Screenwriting
Film and Television · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course C132/C430. Structural analysis of feature films and development of professional screenwriters’ vocabulary for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing their own work. Screenings of films and selected film sequences in class and by assignment.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
FILM TV 33
- FILM TV 34Introduction to Television Writing
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.