English (Honours) at Simon Fraser University

Programme overview

The English honours program is for students with a special interest in literature, writing and rhetoric, or creative writing who wish to pursue studies beyond the major. It leads to a Bachelor of Arts (120 units) and includes an honours essay (ENGL 496) for independent research and writing on a topic of the student's choice.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Department: Department of English | Study mode: full-time | Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

What you will study

Students take two 100-division and four 200-division English courses (for example Literary Classics in English, Literature Now, The Environmental Imagination, Reading Sexuality and Gender), then 48 upper division English units with at least 20 at the 400 level, including a Canadian and/or Indigenous literature course, Literary Criticism: History, Theory, and Practice, and the Honours Research and Methods Seminar.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Honours entry (department): completion of ENGL 364 is required before admission to the honours program, and a 3.5 GPA in all SFU English courses with a CGPA of 3.0 is normally required for acceptance and continuance. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (BA, British Columbia/Yukon secondary school applicants): a minimum of five approved Grade 12 courses including English Studies 12 (minimum 70%) or English First Peoples 12 (minimum 70%); one Science 12 or Math 12 course; one social science/humanities Grade 12 course; and one Language 12 or an additional approved Grade 12 academic course. Grade 11 English, Math, Science and Social Studies courses are also required. Admission is based on an evaluation of all approved Grade 11 and 12 courses, with greater emphasis on the core academic (List A) courses.

Requirements published at faculty level.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the courses you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Fall (September), Spring (January) and Summer (May) terms; most students start in the fall term.

Fall 2027: high school applications open 1 October 2026 and close 31 January 2027; other post-secondary transfer applications open 1 March 2027 and close 15 April 2027. Summer 2027: all applications open 1 December 2026 and close 15 January 2027. Spring 2027: all applications opened 1 July 2026 and close 15 September 2026.

The non-refundable application fee is 86 CAD for domestic students and 130 CAD for international students, payable online by credit card. Applications are submitted through EducationPlannerBC.

Apply through the official page: https://www.sfu.ca/students/admission.html

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