The Creative Writing program offers a two-year studio course of resident study for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students pursuing a Major in Creative Writing. Apprentice writers are offered instruction by faculty who work in a variety of literary and dramatic forms. The program leads to a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing or a joint degree with another department, in which.
UBC’s Creative Writing program was the first writing program in Canada, and is the largest and most comprehensive in the country. It is highly ranked internationally, and draws students from around the world for its multi-genre approach to writing instruction.. These statistics show data for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA.
For admission requirements for all courses see Creative Writing entry under Arts. CRWR 200 (3) Introduction to Creative Writing Techniques of and practice in multiple genres of writing, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenplay, stageplay, graphic forms, lyric forms, children’s literature, and writing for new media.
Off-campus study options UBC’s Vancouver campus. To take courses on the Vancouver campus, students must receive approval for cross campus registration.Before submitting a cross campus request form, be sure to check to see if the course(s) will work towards your Okanagan degree requirements using the UBC Equivalency site. To research Vancouver course options, go to your Student Service.
Applicants interested in the Department of Theatre and Film graduate programs will have to follow the specific application process of their preferred program. General UBC Application Regardless of which program, all interested applicants must submit an online application through the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
As an Arts student, you are required to fulfill the faculty-wide requirements for your degree, as well as the requirements for your specific program. As an Arts student, you must fulfill six credits towards the writing and research requirement, comprised of three credits in a writing-focused course and three credits in a research-intensive course.