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Admission Requirements

Admission to the program requires the completion
of English Studies 12 with a grade of “C” or higher.
Other prerequisites depend on the electives chosen
to complete the program and should be determined
with the advice of a Selkirk College counsellor.

If you are a student who lacks the admission
requirements, you may still gain entry to the program
by taking a combination of academic upgrading and
university courses in your first year. This may extend
the length of your program.

Program Courses

CWRT 100 - STUDIES IN WRITING I

Students seeking an Associate of Arts degree in
English (Writing Studies) must take CWRT 100. The
course focuses the writer’s efforts on the value

of compression and the reduction of ideas to their
purest forms. An in-depth exploration of imagery,
metaphor and word choice through the study of
poetry will prepare students to produce original
compositions in any genre. Students will be expected
to submit original writing for workshop in at least
two of the four genres - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or
drama. The craft of writing essays and criticism on
theory and form will be introduced.

Prerequisites: A grade of “C” or higher in English
Studies 72 or LPI level 4.

CWRT 101 - STUDIES IN WRITING II

Students seeking an Associate of Arts degree in
English (Writing Studies) must take CWRT 100/101.
CWRT 101 focuses the writer’s efforts on crafting
story. An in-depth exploration of scene development,
characterization, setting, point-of-view, and the
leading ideas in stories will prepare students to
produce original compositions in any genre other than
poetry. Students will be expected to submit original
writing for workshop in at least two of the three
genres being discussed. Writing essays and criticism
on theory and form will continue.

Prerequisites: A grade of “C” or higher in English
Studies 72 or LPI level 4.

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Liberal Arts Diploma

CREATIVE WRITING
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SEMESTER 4

Course Name Credit
CWRT 201 = Studies in Writing IV On Campus 3
ENGL 201 A Survey of English Literature II On Campus 3
ENGL LIT Topics in Literature: ENGL 203 or ENGL 205 On Campus 3
UAS ELECT General UAS Elective On Campus 3
UAS ELECT General UAS Elective On Campus 3

Total 6

CWRT 200 - STUDIES IN WRITING III

The emphasis of CWRT 200: Studies in Writing IIT
will be on portfolio development and preparation of
manuscripts for publication. Students will submit for
workshop their own imaginative writing in any of the
four genres — poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction.
In addition, students will engage in a practice of
response, analysis, and critique of published and
peer written work. Lectures will mirror the assigned
readings and serve to initiate theoretical round table
discussions on Image, Voice, Character, Setting, and
Story. In the second half of the semester students
will be required to explore in more depth each of the
four genres. Students will be expected to submit at
least one of their compositions for publication to an
appropriate literary quarterly, magazine, newspaper
or theatre workshop.

Prerequisites: Two semesters of first-year university
English or writing with a grade of “C” or higher.

CWRT 201 - STUDIES IN WRITING IV

A continuation of CWRT 200: Studies in Writing

IIL. While portfolio development and manuscript
preparation are continually emphasized, students
will be required to produce their own chapbook in
one or two of the four genres, write and submit
grant proposals, and read their work aloud. Students
will be expected to submit at least one of their
compositions for publication to an appropriate
literary quarterly, magazine, newspaper, or theatre
workshop. Students will be required to participate in
a year end Student Reading of original work. Writing
reviews, essays and criticism on theory and form of
contemporary literature will continue.

Prerequisites: A grade of “B” or higher in CWRT 200.

ENGL 200 - A SURVEY OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE I

“Tn spring folk long to go on pilgrimage”—so begins
Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th century masterpiece of the
English tradition, The Canterbury Tales. In English
200, we will set out on a pilgrimage which honours
the living beauty of the English language and its
greatest writers such as Spenser, Shakespeare and
Donne, ending in the 17th century with Milton.
Prerequisites: A grade of “C” or higher in ENGL 110/111
or ENGL 112/114 or 114 or equivalent.

ENGL 201 - ASURVEY OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE II

From the calm reason of the Enlightenment to

the passion of the Romantics, we still live out the
questions first asked by the brilliant writers of 18th
and 19th Centuries. In the company of such authors
as Pope, Swift, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Wordsworth,
and Austen, we continue our pilgrimage into culture,
belief, and literary achievement begun in the previous
semester with English 200.

Prerequisites: A grade of “C” or higher in ENGL 200
or equivalent.

TOPICS IN LITERATURE

Students requiring a second-year Topics in Literature

course have a choice of the English 202/203

(Canadian Literature) sequence or the 204/205

(Children’s Literature) sequence.

— ENGL 202: Canadian Literature I:
Indigenous Voices

— ENGL 203: Canadian Literature IT:
Contemporary Voices

— ENGL 204: Children’s Literature I: From Rags to
Riches and Worlds of Magic

— ENGL 205: Children’s Literature IL: From Hell to
Heaven and Everything in Between

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