Key points
- Surveys 30 screenwriting programs across the US and UK, including 8 of the top 10 US programs.
- Finds cautious and uneven AI integration, with UK programs more open to experimentation.
- Raises creative voice and ethical authorship as the central pedagogical tensions.
Summary
This July 2025 Journal of Screenwriting study surveys 30 screenwriting programs across the US and UK, achieving coverage of 8 of the top 10 US programs. It documents a pattern of cautious and uneven AI integration, with UK programs showing greater openness to experimentation than their US counterparts. Creative voice and ethical authorship emerge as the central pedagogical tensions that program leads are navigating. The study provides the only institutional-scale empirical account of how screen production programs are actually responding to generative AI, making it the reference point for curriculum committees in screen and animation-adjacent disciplines.
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Source
Source: Journal of Screenwriting ↗ (Research)
Cite this item
Journal of Screenwriting (2025). ‘AI Use in Screenwriting Programmes in US and UK HE’, Journal of Screenwriting. Available at: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/josc_00178_7
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