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English (BA)

 waterloo | Also available in brantford

Faculty of Arts

Explore the written word as medium for creativity, persuasion, and engagement with life’s most persistent questions in the Laurier Waterloo English program.

Through innovative teaching, diverse courses, and a strong emphasis on reading and writing skills, our English program helps you work at the cutting edges of literary studies and creative writing.

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Program Highlights

  • The program will ground you in the core texts of English literature while introducing you to emerging and experimental texts and critical approaches.
  • English courses offer exciting ways to explore media and culture, along with history and theory.
  • Many of our courses integrate an experiential component so you can apply your learning outside the classroom.
  • Our program is home to the popular course EN190: Introduction to Academic Writing.
  • We offer classes in creative writing taught by award-winning writers of fiction and poetry.
  • Our fourth-year seminar courses in specialized topics provide a small-class experience in which you can develop your leadership and research skills with other graduating students.
  • We offer new minors in Creative Writing, Writing for Career and Community and Youth and Children: Texts and Cultures.
  • You can choose to dive straight into a Master of Arts (MA) in English after completing your Bachelor of Arts (BA): apply for our BA + Master's program.

Sample Courses

  • Tolkien and Fantasy
  • Mystery and Crime Fiction
  • Children’s Literature
  • Human Rights in Contemporary Cultural Forms
  • Creative Writing (poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, the creative process)
  • Pulp and Popular Fiction
  • Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
  • Shakespeare’s Tragedies and History Plays

Requirements

International Baccalaureate Requirements

  • HL or SL English at 3.
  • IB Minimum Score: 26.

Find equivalent requirements for additional curriculums in the admissions toolkits.

Design Your Degree

These are a few popular academic opportunities which allow you to dive deeper into your major area of study or broaden your knowledge:

  • Applied Digital Option
  • Community Engagement Option
  • Management Option
  • Legal Studies Option
  • Social Entrepreneurship Option
  • Communication Studies Minor
  • History Minor
  • Film Studies Minor
  • Creative Writing Minor

For non-English majors:

  • Writing for Career and Community Minor
  • Youth and Children: Texts and Cultures Minor
  • English Minor

Check out other options to enhance your degree.

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