LMU的编剧专业可以帮助学生理解所有出色的电影和电视节目-包括戏剧，喜剧，动作冒险，爱情片或惊悚片-都以书面文字开头的故事开头。LMU电影和电视学院编剧计划的任务是，提供有关美术和手工艺的最佳教育，以创作这些故事并写出这些单词。编剧计划的教职员工致力于帮助每个学生找到他或她富有创造力的声音，并在具有支持性，建设性和娱乐性的环境中以电影和专业的方式表达这种声音。
LMU's Screenwriting major helps students understand that all great movies and television shows - be they drama, comedy, action-adventure, romance or thriller - begin with a story served by the written word. The mission of LMU's School of Film and Television Screenwriting program is to provide the best possible education in the art and craft of creating those stories, and writing those words.<br><br>Faculty members in the Screenwriting program are committed to helping each student find his or her creative voice and express that voice cinematically and professionally in an environment that is supportive, constructive, and fun.<br>Screenwriting majors gain a solid foundation in the liberal arts, taking classes in the University core in order to deepen and broaden their capacity to communicate to audiences their world perspective.<br><br>Majors move into more specific coursework, delving deep into their imaginations and personal lives to come up with stories that will entertain, amuse, uplift, and challenge audiences. In order to actualize these stories, students are introduced to the basic elements of screenwriting.<br><br>Students learn about character, dialogue, plotting, visual writing, and classic and alternative structures. In intermediate and advanced courses, students write and rewrite feature length screenplays, study genres, take classes in sitcom and dramatic television writing, and learn how to adapt stories to different mediums.