Reading and writing are as natural to you as breathing. While most of your friends are watching Romeo and Juliet online to cram for the exam, you're reading the play for the 10th time. Your poetry could give T.S Eliot a run for his money. English, reading, writing, and analysis are your passions, and you want somewhere that will inspire you to improve on these skills.
Choose from 151 English courses - 24 in first year alone! Take rhetoric courses and learn how advertising copy sells ideas. Take digital media studies classes and merge high tech with communication. Or focus on British, Canadian, and American literature.
Choose Literature or one of 2 programs developed at Waterloo: Rhetoric and Professional Writing, or Literature and Rhetoric. Also available are specializations in Digital Media Studies and English Literature in a Global Context.
Get a head start on your career by gaining paid co-op work experience relating to English. Apply to Arts and Business Co-op or Honours Arts and choose English as your major in second year.
Major
Regular and Co-op
Choose from 151 English courses - 24 in first year alone! Take rhetoric courses and learn how advertising copy sells ideas. Take digital media studies classes and merge high tech with communication. Or focus on British, Canadian, and American literature.
Choose Literature or one of 2 programs developed at Waterloo: Rhetoric and Professional Writing, or Literature and Rhetoric. Also available are specializations in Digital Media Studies and English Literature in a Global Context.
Get a head start on your career by gaining paid co-op work experience relating to English. Apply to Arts and Business Co-op or Honours Arts and choose English as your major in second year.
Type of program
Major
System of study
Regular and Co-op
For more information, please visit the English website.
