Year 2

Year 2

The following is a suggested mix of courses to satisfy requirements for the liberal arts diploma in creative writing. Courses should be chosen only after consultation with a Selkirk College counsellor.

Complete a total of 60 credits of University courses.
At least 12 of these credits must be in English and should include ENGL 200 and ENGL 201.
Complete four creative writing courses - CWRT 100, CWRT 101, CWRT 200 and CWRT 201.
When available CWRT 210 - Ecopoetics is recommended.
Choose your electives from among the university arts and sciences course offerings.

If you are interested in our associate degree in creative writing, please find the course selection information on our associate of English page.

Learn more about all of the creative writing courses offered at Selkirk.

Course of Studies

Semester 3

Course	Name	Credit
CWRT 200	Studies in Writing III	3
ENGL 200	A Survey of English Literature I	3
ENGL LIT	Topics in Literature: ENGL 202 or ENGL 204 or ENGL 209	3
UAS ELECT	General UAS Elective	3
UAS ELECT	General UAS Elective	3
Total		15

Semester 4

Course	Name	Credit
CWRT 201	Studies in Writing IV	3
ENGL 201	A Survey of English Literature II	3
ENGL LIT	Topics in Literature: ENGL 203 or ENGL 205 or ENGL 209	3
UAS ELECT	General UAS Elective	3
UAS ELECT	General UAS Elective	3
Total		15

Course Descriptions

CWRT 200 - Studies in Writing III

The emphasis of CWRT 200: Studies in Writing III 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.

Note: CWRT 200 is a hybrid course. Students will attend face-to-face seminars in either Nelson or Castlegar every Tuesday, and the remainder of the coursework takes place online. All students must register for a seminar.

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

ENGL 200 - A Survey of English Literature I

“In spring folk long to go on pilgrimage”—so begins Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14^th 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 17^th century with Milton.

Prerequisites: A "C" or better in ENGL 110/111 or ENGL 112/114 or equivalent.

ENGL LIT - Topics in Literature: ENGL 202 or ENGL 204 or ENGL 209

Students requiring a second-year Topics in Literature course have a choice of the English 202/203 (Canadian Literature) sequence and the 204/205 (Children's Literature) sequence or ENGL 209.

ENGL 202: Canadian Literature I: Indigenous Voices

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

ENGL 209: Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels

UAS ELECT - General UAS Elective

A student may take any first-year or higher university transferable course to satisfy this elective.

Each course must transfer for three or more credits to at least one of: SFU, UBC (Vancouver or Okanagan), UNBC or UVIC.

To learn more about how your courses transfer visit the online BC Transfer Guide or contact a Selkirk counsellor.

CWRT 201 - Studies in Writing IV

CWRT 201: Studies in Writing IV. The emphasis of this second-year creative writing course 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 being taught – poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. Allowances for other genres will be made with the permission of the instructor. Lectures, both face to face and online, will mirror the assigned readings and serve to initiate theoretical discussions on form and theory, and principles and elements of craft.

Prerequisites: Two semesters of first-year University English or Creative Writing with a grade of “C” or better.

ENGL 201 - A Survey 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 18^th and 19^th 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 "C" or better in ENGL 200 or equivalent.

ENGL LIT - Topics in Literature: ENGL 203 or ENGL 205 or ENGL 209

Students requiring a second-year Topics in Literature course have a choice of the English 202/203 (Canadian Literature) sequence and the 204/205 (Children's Literature) sequence or ENGL 209.

ENGL 203: Canadian Literature II: Contemporary Voices

ENGL 205: Children's Literature II: From Hell to Heaven and Everything in Between

ENGL 209: Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels

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