Overview

Writing and Literature from Capilano University offers two concentrations: Critical and Creative Writing and Literature and Culture.

Quick Facts:

You'll choose your concentration by filling out the Concentration Declaration Form (pdf) 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.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Words in the World I: Genre and Form
Words in the World III: Cultures, Networks and Traditions
Words in the World Ill: Critical and Creative Formations
Teaching Writing & Literature
Words in the World Practicum

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-08 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-05-11 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-05 00:00:00
Starting 2028-01-04 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-06 00:00:00

Language

English

Duolingo English Test

125

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TOEFL^® IBT

83

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PTE Academic

56

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

42 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

North Vancouver, Canada

Disciplines

Creative Writing Literature View 48 other Bachelors in Creative Writing in Canada

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

Duolingo English Test

125

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TOEFL^® IBT

83

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PTE Academic

56

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General 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

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Tuition Fees

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20693 CAD / year

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4489 CAD / year

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Academic requirements

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