Creative Writing

B.A. Minor in Creative Writing

Note: The Faculty of Arts also offers a B.F.A. Major in Creative Writing.

The B.A. Minor in Creative Writing program is open enrolment, and no manuscript submission is required for entry.

Lower Level Requirements

  • CRWR_V 200 (3 credits) and 9 further credits from 200-level creative writing courses, for a total of twelve 200-level CRWR_V credits.

Upper Level Requirements

  • 18 credits from 300-level creative writing courses1

1Most 300 level courses require the 200-level prerequisite in the same genre (for example, in order to take CRWR_V 301: Intermediate Writing Poetry, a student must have taken CRWR_V 201: Introduction to Writing Poetry). To register in a 300-level course with no 200-level genre prerequisite, a student must have taken at least one 200-level creative writing course.


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