Arts (Creative and professional writing), Bachelor

Our flexible Bachelor of Arts degree offers a wide range of over 50 majors and minors across humanities, social sciences, business, health, and science, enabling you to explore diverse interests while keeping career options broad. This interdisciplinary program allows you to pursue your passions alongside professional preparation.Select a primary arts major and complement it with secondary majors, minors, and electives from various fields, such as combining sociology and psychology with a Chinese elective, or pairing economics with English, or crime, justice, and legal studies with linguistics. Your primary major will appear on your academic transcript, showcasing your expertise to employers, and you'll receive support from world-class academics to shape your future.

The Creative and Professional Writing major allows you to hone your writing skills in multiple genres and forms. If you have a passion for telling stories and using language to change the way we see the world, then this major gives you the opportunity to experiment with the short story, extended fiction, creative non-fiction and script-writing. As well as crafting your own pieces, you will learn about the links between creative practice and literary studies and discover how your own writing relates to or challenges literary traditions. You will practice reading as a writer, paying close attention to the strategies other writers use to create mood and meaning. 

Over the course of the major, you will develop editing skills in dedicated classes with a focus on current practice in the publishing industry and in peer-feedback workshops. Supported by accomplished and published writers, you will finish your degree with a writing portfolio and valuable writing experience. Through this major you will gain skills highly valued within and beyond the university – to write cogently, to adapt style for different circumstances and audiences, to engage critically with language, and to tell compelling stories.