Diploma in Arts, lettres et communication : option Littérature

Litterature is a two-year pre-university DEC built around close reading and writing across classic and modern works from many literary traditions, including French, Quebec, Russian, German, American and British literature. The program combines genre-focused courses on poetry, the essay, theatre and narrative, courses tracing artistic movements across periods and disciplines such as painting, sculpture, music and architecture, and seminars devoted to a specific theme or author, with examples on the page including imagination and altered states, madness, animality, the feminine, and single-author studies of Kafka, Rejean Ducharme or Virginia Woolf. Alongside literary analysis, students regularly write essays, reflective pieces and creative texts, developing their own voice and style. Each year, graduating students' creative writing is published in the program's student literary review, Textures. The program can also be combined as a double DEC with Sciences humaines, Sciences de la nature or Musique. No specific secondary-level prerequisites are required, and admission is offered each Fall. It suits students drawn to sustained reading, literary analysis and creative and critical writing across historical periods and cultures.