FILM TV 437Adaptation for Screen
Film and Television · 8 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Students analyze techniques of dramatic adaptation and apply them by writing their own scripted adaptations. Students read selected texts and view their filmed versions in order to learn various approaches to adaptation. Students workshop their own screenplays adapted from preselected list of stories.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 430.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
FILM TV 437
- FILM TV 430Introduction to Film and Television Writing
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.