Academic Writing Requirement

Strong reading, writing, research, and digital literacy skills are essential to academic success.

These are the skills you will learn in the Academic Writing Requirement (AWR) courses offered by the Department of English: ENSH 101: Themes in Literature, ENSH 102: Literature in Action, and ENSH 103: Writing, Power, Culture. 

To discover the fascinating variety of our AWR courses on offer, visit the detailed ENSH 100 Level Courses page, where you can see AWR ENSH courses on social justice, imagination, migration, children’s literature, pain and memory, comics, racism and colonialism, the supernatural, jokes, mental health, narrative, personal identity, the environment, detective fiction, Shakespeare, posthumanism, African literature, Dracula, and more!

For further information on UVic’s Academic Writing Requirement (AWR), please visit the Academic Writing Requirement page or the Academic Calendar.