English (BA)

Bachelor degree
Application deadlines: 1 April
Processing time: 30 days
Application fee: CA$60
Intakes: Fall

Program overview

English offers an overview of the history and forms of literature written in the English-speaking world. An education in English will sharpen both your communication skills and analytical abilities while providing you with a better understanding of how your culture made sense of the world historically and how we do now in the contemporary world. You will learn how to critically engage with content to explore hidden meanings and discover how humanity uses language for artistry, information-sharing, providing comfort, for inciting inspiration and much more. By taking the same approach to your own communities, how you find meaning will be transformed and how you communicate these meanings will be strengthened. Our program provides the flexibility to seize opportunities in a wide range of professional fields such as editing, professional writing, public relations and social and digital media. English is an ideal program to help you thrive in changing times and only at Laurier's Brantford campus can you enhance your degree with a minor in Professional Writing.

Requirements

Exams:

  • TOEFL iBT
  • IELTS
  • PTE
Minimum admission range of low 70s. Competitive admission range of low 80s. English at 60%. HL or SL English at 3. IB Minimum Score: 24.

Career opportunities

advertising agent author/poet/playwright communications officer copy writer/editor digital communications specialist editor/editorial assistant educational software developer event planner/fundraiser grant writer/administrator journalist/reporter lawyer librarian literacy program coordinator manuscript reader marketing manager program/group facilitator project coordinator public relations specialist publisher radio producer scriptwriter social worker teacher/ESL instructor technical writer terminologist tourism consultant

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