Program Highlights
If you'd love to immerse yourself in contemporary literature and creative writing, start in the Associate of Arts degree in Creative Writing at CapU.
Hone your writing under the guidance of practicing writers, who specialize in poetry and poetics (including digital poetics), the novel, micro-fiction, creative non-fiction, writing for children, ficto-criticism, radio and short film scripts.
You'll start your first year by studying multiple genres and branch out in second year to explore poetry, fiction, non-fiction, playwriting and writing for children.
Upon graduation, you'll finish with an Associate Degree plus first- and second-year English and creative writing credits, which can be laddered in to one of the 15 bachelor's degrees at CapU.
- Demonstrate a breadth and depth of knowledge of appropriate to a student entering upper-division courses.
- Demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, and creative implementation of sound solutions to problems.
- Communicate ideas through oral and written formats.
- Work both independently and cooperatively.
- Analyze and synthesize course material to produce original work.
- Use technology creatively and efficiently.
- Demonstrate quantitative and qualitative reasoning and research methods.
- Draw upon knowledge, judgment, and imagination in work and life.
- Produce a portfolio of original work.
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: 60.00
Program Notes
Please see Classification of Subjects for Associate Degrees in the University Calendar for clarification of Arts, Humanities, Social Science and Science electives.