Please consult Atkinson College for details. The Creative Writing Programme is an Honours BA Programme offered by the Faculty of Arts. Students may apply for admission to the Programme at the end of their second year of study, and before completion of their first thirteen courses. The primary objective of the Programme in Creative Writing is to give students who have the talent and the ambition for a writing career the opportunity to develop that talent significantly and to make it the centre of a programme of university study. The programme therefore aims in its earlier years to acquaint students with the various ways of writing that the writers of our time have made possible.
Students begin to write in an expanding environment of literary and linguistic knowledge.
In the later years the programme aims to expose students to the history of formal experimentation and growth in particular genres, and to encourage specialization in two genres. The Programme emphasizes literary writing rather than formula writing. A third objective of the programme is to take into account the unpredictability and variety of the interests of writing students. This programme permits students to follow idiosyncratic combinations of courses, provided that they can demonstrate to their advisor the relevance of these courses to their writing ambitions. Students will normally take a seven-course Honours major in Creative Writing and select remaining courses in a pattern appropriate in their needs as writers.