Bachelor of Arts - Honours Arts - English - Rhetoric, Media, and Professional Communication
University of Waterloo · Ontario, Canada
About this programme
Students who have a wide variety of interests, Honours Arts gives them the freedom to explore it.
In the University of Waterloo's largest and most flexible first-year program, students will use their first two terms to test the waters. Sample courses from the humanities, social sciences, fine and performing arts, and languages and cultures. Discover subjects students weren’t exposed to in high school, or delve deeper into their favourite subject at the university level.
Honours Arts will give students the critical thinking skills to analyze issues, make persuasive arguments, write well, and speak with conviction — skills that will serve them well along any career path.
For students who love the written word: An English degree at the University of Waterloo gives students all kinds of opportunity to explore that passion, with more than 150 undergraduate courses available in both the regular and co-op streams.
In this stream, students will take rhetoric courses and learn the art of persuasion. Students will focus on digital media, where they will merge the latest technology with enduring principles of effective communication. Or explore the pleasures and insights of English literature, from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf.
At the University of Waterloo, students learn from the best. The Department of English features internationally recognized scholars. In classes, student will develop all-important skills in communication, critical thinking, analysis, and persuasion.
Students will gain a critical eye in how language is used to persuade and sell while developing skills that enable students to write and design for professional communication channels, web, and social media. Students will learn about writing, reporting, interviewing, blogging, and public speaking.
In the University of Waterloo's largest and most flexible first-year program, students will use their first two terms to test the waters. Sample courses from the humanities, social sciences, fine and performing arts, and languages and cultures. Discover subjects students weren’t exposed to in high school, or delve deeper into their favourite subject at the university level.
Honours Arts will give students the critical thinking skills to analyze issues, make persuasive arguments, write well, and speak with conviction — skills that will serve them well along any career path.
For students who love the written word: An English degree at the University of Waterloo gives students all kinds of opportunity to explore that passion, with more than 150 undergraduate courses available in both the regular and co-op streams.
In this stream, students will take rhetoric courses and learn the art of persuasion. Students will focus on digital media, where they will merge the latest technology with enduring principles of effective communication. Or explore the pleasures and insights of English literature, from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf.
At the University of Waterloo, students learn from the best. The Department of English features internationally recognized scholars. In classes, student will develop all-important skills in communication, critical thinking, analysis, and persuasion.
Students will gain a critical eye in how language is used to persuade and sell while developing skills that enable students to write and design for professional communication channels, web, and social media. Students will learn about writing, reporting, interviewing, blogging, and public speaking.
Admission requirements
Minimum Level of Education Completed
Grade 12 / High School
Minimum GPA
85.0%
Minimum Language Test Scores
IELTS
6.5
TOEFL
90.0
PTE
63.0
DUOLINGO
120.0
This program offers conditional admissions
For conditional admission, you are required to provide English proficiency scores:
- Min TOEFL iBT: 74
- Min IELTS overall: 5.5 Min Writing: 5
- Min Duolingo English Test Score: 85
- Min PTE overall: 50 >
Intakes
September 2024
Apply by 30 Jul 2024
Apply by 30 Jul 2024
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