Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing Humber College - Lakeshore Campus, Canada

Do you love words? Do you dream of telling stories or helping others tell theirs? The Honours Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing helps you transform your passion for writing into a fulfilling career. As you develop creative writing skills that stimulate your imagination and storytelling abilities, you learn to write clearly and convincingly across evolving genres, platforms and venues. Practice your craft independently and collaboratively in a variety of settings, from the traditional classroom experience to the creative writing workshop. In your final semester, benefit from one-on-one mentorship through our Capstone Manuscript course, where you develop a book-length project with the guidance of an established author. 

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program, a graduate will:

• Describe the influences at play in the evolving media and cultural context which affect the writer’s craft within contemporary markets and audiences.
• Identify key structures and characteristics in a variety of creative and professional works applicable to writing proficiency.
• Conduct primary and secondary research from credible sources to support authenticity and accuracy in creative and professional writing.
• Write creative and professional works suitable for publishing to a wide variety of audiences, publishers, platforms and industries using the full range of principles of rhetoric, syntax, grammar, style, and usage.
• Use a range of digital technologies and tools for visual communication and design appropriate to specified writing projects.
• Create works in creative and professional writing that convey the characteristic structures and formats used in a variety of genres and applications.
• Outline a variety of methods and structures for story development.
• Edit writing of self and others applying a range of editorial techniques to in order to meet publication standards.
• Collaborate interprofessionally with designers, publishers, editors, marketing and advertising professionals in order to undertake and complete projects in creative and professional writing.
• Analyze exemplary texts to distinguish effective modes and strategies for application to one’s own writing.
• Reflect on work completed in creative and professional writing projects to assess the extent to which one has achieved one’s goals and to apply lessons learned.
• Build a professional presence though development of a multimodal portfolio, demonstrating attributes of fluency, craft, technological competency, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

Work Placement
Gain industry knowledge, bolster your skill set and build your network through the program’s required 420-hour work-integrated learning experience. You’ll have the option to complete your placement hours through a more traditional, fulltime work placement at, for example, a corporate communications organization, or you can fulfill your hours through participating in literary readings and festivals, working at the program’s online literary magazine, or other similar opportunities.