Program Highlights
As the only degree in B.C. integrating the study of literature and creative writing in one standalone program, the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Writing & Literature at Capilano University is the place for blossoming writers.
In the program, you’ll apply your love of writing and literature to a range of creative and academic contexts, learn in small, engaging seminar classes from experienced faculty and gain the writing and research skills for various exciting careers.
This four-year bachelor's degree offers two concentrations: Critical and Creative Writing and Literature and Culture. You'll choose your concentration in your first year. Both share a foundation of high-impact, immersive coursework and applied, experiential elements, including work-integrated learning opportunities.
In the writing concentration, you'll have course options in children's literature, screenwriting, poetry and creative nonfiction. On the literature side, you can delve into topics including Indigenous literature and film, Canadian and world literature, literature and the environment and literature in media and performance.
Students in both concentrations will also have the occasion each year to learn from an Indigenous writer in residence, gaining insight into some of the critical and creative decolonial practices Indigenous writers use in their work.
You'll graduate as a stronger writer and researcher with a wealth of new ways to present ideas and tell stories, with training in cross-genre, creative, multi-modal and web-based forms of writing as well as in literary history and culture.
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- Interpret literary texts and other cultural objects with an ethics of curiosity and care.
- Analyze the historical and cultural forces at work in the production of local and global literatures.
- Undertake rigorous research that integrates various methodologies and perspectives.
- Produce original written, performed, digital, multimodal, and collaborative projects for a range of audiences.
- Apply the power of language to contribute to the vitality of regional communities and other social groupings.
- Articulate and integrate principles of Indigenous knowledge within educational and professional contexts.
- Articulate and model the value of critical, creative, and collaborative skills within educational and professional contexts, including contexts in which histories of social, cultural, and institutional discrimination and exclusion can be addressed and redressed.
Admission Requirements
English language requirements
English is the language of instruction at CapU. All applicants are required to demonstrate competence in the English language prior to admission.
If English is not your first language or you’ve received your education in a language other than English, you must meet our English Language Requirements.
Basic requirements
- High school graduation
- A minimum grade point average of 2.0 (60%) calculated on English Studies 12 or English 12 or English First Peoples 12 and two academic Grade 12 courses
Program Requirements
Total program credits: 51.00
Program Notes
Students pursuing a baccalaureate degree must meet Cap Core graduation requirements in addition to their program requirements.
Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree must complete all requirements in the Bachelor of Arts Framework and Cap Core requirements in addition to their major or minor program requirements.
Students should declare in their chosen concentration in either Critical and Creative Writing or Literature and Culture in advance of their second year of studies.