Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English with Co-op

Brandon University

At BU’s Department of English, Drama & Creative Writing you can study English literature in a small, friendly environment. Study works ranging from Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Gary Schteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. English at BU boasts close contact with faculty the inclusion, unusual for an English department, of classical literature and the opportunity to take courses in creative writing and drama. Your professors in the Department of English, Drama & Creative Writing want you to earn a degree that will enable you to do whatever you want after graduation, whether it be preparation for a career such as teaching or law, or for some other career of your choice. To that end, the department has several degree requirements that aim to ensure the high quality of your degree. The Creative Writing Program at BU offers small class sizes, ideal for workshopping your original short stories, poetry, plays, song lyrics, and literary essays. If you love reading, but you also desire to write your own works for pleasure and/or profit, Creative Writing at BU is for you.

The Co-operative Education Program builds meaningful and relevant work into your degree you get to learn and earn. With Co-op, you will gain new skills, have career-defining experiences, and develop connections that will last you a lifetime. Benefits: The Co-op Program at Brandon University provides you with the opportunity to gain relevant and meaningful work experience while you explore different career options. At the same time, you will expand your network of industry professionals and build skills suited to the ever-changing job market. Both work and academic terms are full-time and follow a formalized sequence. The total amount of co-op work experience is normally at least 30 percent of the time spent in academic study. A work term is defined as a minimum of 12 weeks and/or 420 hours full-time paid experience. The Work Experience Stream consists of one work term. The Co-op Stream consists of two or three work terms.

All full-time Brandon University students in good standing and enrolled in a degree with a declared major in one of the participating disciplines are eligible to apply for admission to the Co-operative Education Program (which includes the Work Experience Stream and the Co-op Stream). International students are eligible for work permits that are valid only for co-op employment arranged through the co-op program. Students must meet the course and major GPA criteria according to the department offering their declared major.