English — Rhetoric and Professional Writing

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 tenth 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.You can 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.

Field of study: English Technical and Business Writing, Rhetoric and Composition