The academic plan leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Honours English (Co-op) is designed for students who intend to enter careers in business, industry, government, or the communications media. Qualified students will ordinarily be admitted to the academic plan after completion of their first two academic terms at the University of Waterloo and will proceed through the Honours English BA academic plan consisting of six further terms of study on campus and a minimum of four work terms with participating employers in the media, business, government, and industry.
The academic requirements of the Co-op mode are essentially those of the regular Waterloo Honours BA in English (either Literature, Literature and Rhetoric, or RPW). Co-op students must complete, by the start of their 3A term, ten academic course units, one unit in a language other than English [Honours English - Literature and Honours English - Literature and Rhetoric students may take any two Languages and Cultures courses; Honours English - Rhetoric and Professional Writing must take two language courses (i.e., culture courses taught in English will not fulfill the requirement for these students)] and 0.5 units in computer science at the university-level from any faculty. Students with an interest in doing so are strongly encouraged to take more than one course in computing.