WQB Courses

Writing, Quantitative & Breadth

All students admitted to an undergraduate degree at Simon Fraser University as of fall 2006 must complete a minimum of 36 units of courses designated as Writing, Quantitative, or Breadth, with a grade of C- or better to receive the WQB credits. Students transferring from a B.C. college with 60 units should consider completing some transferable W, Q and B courses prior to admission to SFU.

Course List

Writing Courses

  • ENGL 111: Literary Classics
  • ENGL 112: Literature Now 
  • ENGL 113: Literature and Performance
  • ENGL 114: Language and Purpose
  • ENGL 115: Literature and
  • ENGL 199: Writing to Persuade
  • ENGL 400: Seminar in Advanced Old English
  • ENGL 411: Seminar in Literature and Race
  • ENGL 413: Seminar in Literature and Environment
  • ENGL 414: Seminar in Literature and History
  • ENGL 415: Seminar in Media, Culture and Performance
  • ENGL 417: Seminar in Gender, Sexuality and
  • ENGL 418: Seminar in Critical Theory
  • ENGL 431: Seminar in Indigenous Literatures
  • ENGL 432: Seminar in Canadian Literature
  • ENGL 433: Seminar in British Literature
  • ENGL 437: Seminar in American Literatures
  • ENGL 439: Seminar in World Literatures in English
  • ENGL 443: Seminar in Literatures of Diaspora and Migration
  • ENGL 470: Seminar in the English Language
  • ENGL 472: Seminar in Advanced Creative Writing
  • ENGL 474: Seminar in North American Poetry and Poetics
  • ENGL 475: Seminar in Rhetoric
  • ENGL 493: Seminar in Special Topics

Breadth Courses (All designated B-Hum)

  • ENGL 111: Literary Classics
  • ENGL 112: Literature Now
  • ENGL 113: Literature and Performance
  • ENGL 114: Language and Purpose
  • ENGL 115: Literature and Culture
  • ENGL 202: The Environmental Imagination
  • ENGL 204: Reading Sexuality and Gender
  • ENGL 209: Race, Borders, Empire
  • ENGL 210: Reading and Writing Identities
  • ENGL 211: The Place of the Past     
  • ENGL 213: Reading Across Media
  • ENGL 272: Creative Reading
  • ENGL 383: Studies in Popular Literature and Culture
  • ENGL 398: Major Authors for Non-Majors

Quantitative Courses

  • ENGL 234: Metrics and Prosody