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LENGTH OF STUDY:
2 Years

ACCREDITATION:
Liberal Arts Diploma/Associate of
Arts Degree

CAMPUS:
Castlegar Campus

“Imagination is everything. It is a preview of life’s
coming attractions.”

—Albert Einstein

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Whether you are interested in taking individual
courses or pursuing a creative writing diploma/
degree, Selkirk College welcomes you. Join the
program’s core faculty, as well as guest speakers
and visiting writers who will take you on an exciting
journey designed to immerse you in creative
processes and help you find your voice.

What defines our creative writing program is a
community of writers composed of small class

sizes and intimate workshops. Gain confidence in
communicating your ideas in a truly magical setting.
Imagine sitting by the confluence of the Kootenay and
Columbia Rivers to draft a poem, or walking along
the Castlegar campus trails - a significant gathering
place for Indigenous peoples - to conjure the final
scene in your short story. In Nelson, classes are held
at the Tenth Street campus, also home to Selkirk’s
renowned Music and Digital Arts programs.

Situated in one of the most beautiful regions on
earth, Selkirk College offers a safe, peaceful and
vibrant sense of place for writers to explore their
imaginations in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama.
Our creative writing classes are fully transferable to
universities across Canada. Take your first two years
with us and you will be set for success to complete
your third and fourth year of a degree program
elsewhere.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

Creative Writing students will develop the following
essential skills, transferable to any career:

— Critical reading
— Concise writing
— Research

— Diagnosis

— Creative solutions
— Synthesizing ideas
— Revision

— Analysis

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Creative Writing

Liberal Arts Diploma

Selkirk College awards a Liberal Arts diploma in Creative Writing to students who complete at least
sixty (60) credits of University Arts and Sciences courses with a “P” grade or better in each course,
achieves a minimum GPA of 2.00, and whose course selection meets the following criteria:

Two semester courses in first-year English.
Creative Writing 100 and 101

Creative Writing 200 and 201

English 200 and English 201

English 202 or 204; English 203 or 205

A minimum of 10 semester courses in first- or second-year Arts and Science courses other than
first-year English.

Up to a maximum of six courses may be from other subjects, as long as they are at the 100-level or

higher and are transferable as per the BC Transfer Guide.

The following is the selection of courses that may be chosen for this diploma. Students are advised to

meet with an academic counsellor to discuss their course selection

YEAR 1

SEMESTER 1

SEMESTER 2

Course
CWRT 100
ENGLISH
UAS ELECT
UAS ELECT
UAS ELECT

Course
CWRT 101
ENGLISH
UAS ELECT
UAS ELECT
UAS ELECT

YEAR 2

SEMESTER 3

Course
CWRT 200
ENGL 200
ENGL LIT

UAS ELECT
UAS ELECT

Name

Studies in Writing I

English Requirement: ENGL 110 or ENGL 112
General UAS Elective

General UAS Elective

General UAS Elective

Name

Studies in Writing IT

English Requirement: ENGL 111 or ENGL 114
General UAS Elective

General UAS Elective

General UAS Elective

Name
Studies in Writing IIT
A Survey of English Literature I

Topics in Literature: ENGL 202 or
ENGL 204

General UAS Elective
General UAS Elective

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Selkirk College Academic Calendar 2019-20

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