Courses and workshops
Our screenwriting courses will help you visualize your ideas
You'll learn playwriting from some of Canada's top playwrights
Our annual Sunscreen film contest lets you see your finished short flims on the screen
Led by established, nationally acclaimed faculty and sessional instructors breaking ground in their fields, small groups of students discuss and analyze their work in dynamic and intensive peer sessions to develop both their craft and critical ability.
Our focus is on crafting language, images, characters and details into stories, poems, plays and films that inspire readers and audiences to feel and think deeply—and to change the world in the process.
Workshops in poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, fiction and creative nonfiction are supplemented by lectures on craft and courses in each genre, publishing, journalism, editing, photojournalism, audio and screenwriting, multimedia and electronic design for the Web and print. In addition to faculty and sessional instructors, the department also hosts regular visits by celebrated and international writers.
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Level |
Courses |
Units |
|
1st Year |
3.0 |
|
|
1.5 |
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1st Year Total: |
4.5 |
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2nd Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
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2nd Year Total: |
6.0 |
|
|
3rd/4th Year |
[x2] |
3.0 |
|
1.5 |
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|
10.5 |
||
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3rd/4th Year Total: |
15.0 |
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Fiction Major Total: |
25.5 |
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Note: You may take a maximum of 1.5 units of workshops in a single genre per four-month term, and a maximum of 3.0 units of workshops in any given four-month term. |
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For more information on our program requirements, please refer to the .
|
Level |
Courses |
Units |
|
1st Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
1.5 |
|
|
1st Year Total: |
4.5 |
|
|
2nd Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
|
2nd Year Total: |
6.0 |
|
|
3rd/4th Year |
[x2] |
3.0 |
|
1.5 |
||
|
10.5 |
||
|
3rd/4th Year Total: |
15.0 |
|
|
Poetry Major Total: |
25.5 |
|
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Note: You may take a maximum of 1.5 units of workshops in a single genre per four-month term, and a maximum of 3.0 units of workshops in any given four-month term. |
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For more information on our program requirements, please refer to the .
|
Level |
Courses |
Units |
|
1st Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
1.5 |
|
|
1st Year Total: |
4.5 |
|
|
2nd Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
|
2nd Year Total: |
6.0 |
|
|
3rd/4th Year |
[x2] |
3.0 |
|
1.5 |
||
|
10.5 |
||
|
3rd/4th Year Total: |
15.0 |
|
|
Drama Major Total: |
25.5 |
|
|
Note: You may take a maximum of 1.5 units of workshops in a single genre per four-month term, and a maximum of 3.0 units of workshops in any given four-month term. |
||
For more information on our program requirements, please refer to the .
|
Level |
Courses |
Units |
|
1st Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
1.5 |
|
|
1st Year Total: |
4.5 |
|
|
2nd Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
|
2nd Year Total: |
6.0 |
|
|
3rd/4th Year |
1.5 |
|
|
|
1.5 |
|
|
1.5 |
||
|
10.5 |
||
|
3rd/4th Year Total: |
15.0 |
|
|
Drama Major Total: |
25.5 |
|
|
Note: You may take a maximum of 1.5 units of workshops in a single genre per four-month term, and a maximum of 3.0 units of workshops in any given four-month term. |
||
For more information on our program requirements, please refer to the .
|
Level |
Courses |
Units |
|
1st Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
1.5 |
|
|
1st Year Total: |
4.5 |
|
|
2nd Year |
3.0 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
|
2nd Year Total: |
6.0 |
|
|
3rd/4th Year |
[x2] |
3.0 |
|
1.5 |
||
|
10.5 |
||
|
3rd/4th Year Total: |
15.0 |
|
|
Creative Nonfiction Major Total: |
25.5 |
|
|
Note: You may take a maximum of 1.5 units of workshops in a single genre per four-month term, and a maximum of 3.0 units of workshops in any given four-month term. |
||
For more information on our program requirements, please refer to the .