Arts Academic Plans

A Joint Honours academic plan with English - Literature may be taken in combination with most Arts disciplines in which an Honours academic plan is offered or with many Honours majors in other Faculties.

Continuation in this academic plan requires a cumulative overall average of 60% and cumulative English average of 75%.

Eligibility for graduation in the Joint Honours English - Literature academic plan includes successful fulfillment of the requirements listed below.

1. Appropriate Program-level requirements for the Home Faculty, including at least 20 academic course units (40 courses). If the Home Faculty is Arts, see Bachelor of Arts Degree Requirements.
2. English Plan-level requirements:
   • at least eight academic course units (16 courses) in English with a minimum cumulative average of 75%, including:
     • two ENGL courses at the 100-level, excluding ENGL 119 and ENGL 129R (see Notes 1 and 4)
     • Survey of British Literature: ENGL 200A, 200B (see Note 3)
     • Criticism: ENGL 251A, 251B (see Note 3)
     • History and Theory of Language; History and Theory of Rhetoric: one of ENGL 305A, 306A, 306B, 306C, 306D, 306F, 306G, 309A, 309B, 309C, 376R, 377R
     • Literatures Medieval to Romantic: two of ENGL 305B, 310A, 310B, 310C, 325, 330A, 330B, 350A, 350B, 361, 362, 363, 364, 410A, 410B, 410C, 410D
     • Literatures Romantic to Modern: two of 313, 342, 343, 348, 430A, 430B, 451A, 451B
     • Literatures Modern to Contemporary: two of ENGL 315, 316, 318, 322, 344, 345, 346, 347, 460A, 460B, 460C, 460D, 463
     • Special Topics: one of ENGL 481, 484, 485, 486, 492, 493, 494
     • two additional ENGL courses, one of which must be at the 300- or 400-level (see Note 1)
3. Plan-level requirements for the second major

Notes:

1. Students may use only two English courses at the 100-level to fulfill English plan requirements; additional 100-level English courses may count as degree electives. Courses transferred from other institutions without a specific course designation (e.g., ENGL 2XX) may only be counted towards the English electives.
2. Results from all English courses taken at the University of Waterloo are used to calculate the cumulative English average. 
3. ENGL 200A, 200B, 251A, 251B are strongly recommended for second year.
4. A maximum of two of the following courses may be used to fulfill English plan requirements: ENGL 210E-I, 309E, 376R, 377R. The following English courses do not fulfill English course requirements for any English plan, including the minor: ENGL 119, 129R. These courses are designed primarily to make students aware of the different functions of language in various contexts and to assist them in improving their writing.  

Although the Department of English provides advisors to help students choose their academic plans, arrange their courses and conform with the University, Faculty, and Department regulations, students are urged to study the Undergraduate Calendar very carefully because they are themselves responsible for failure to abide by these regulations.