GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

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B.C. Secondary School Regular Graduation Requirements

To graduate, students must earn a minimum of 52 credits of Foundation Studies (minimum 28 credits) and Selected Studies (minimum 24 credits).

  Graduation Requirements  
  Foundation Studies (Core Requirements/28 credits) Credits
1. EN11   English 11 or                         COM11   Communications 11
FRAL11   Francais-Langue 11		 4
2. EN12   English 12 or                         COM12   Communications 12 or
FRAL12   Francais-Langue 12           TPC12   Technical Professional Communications 12		 4
3. SS11   Social Studies 11 or               SCH11   Sciences Humaines 11 4
4. ONE OF:
AC11   Accounting 11 or 12              MA11   Mathematics 11 or 12
IMA11   Intro Mathematics 11           MTH11   Applications of Math 11 or 12		 4
5. ONE OF:
PH11   Physics 11 or 12                   INT11   Information Technology 11 or 12
BI11   Biology 11 or 12                     ESC11   Earth Science 11
CH11   Chemistry 11 or 12               SCT11   Science and Tech 11		 4
6. FNA11   Fine Arts 11                                         2 credits
ASK11   Applied Skills                                       2 credits
CAPP11   Career and Personal Planning 11         2 credits
CAPP12   Career and Personal Planning 12         2 credits

Note: In CAPP 12 students must earn one credit (30 hours) of work experience.

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Selected Studies (Electives)(24 credits)
  
7. Students must earn a minimum of 24 credits. Students select courses of varying credit value to
support their career plans (e.g., apprenticeship, vocational, technical, university, college, entry to workforce).		 24
8. Of the minimum 24 credits in selected studies:
  • 10 credits must be Grade 12 Provincially authorized or career preparation courses
  • up to 8 credits can be locally developed courses, unless a part of approved career preparation or
    pre-apprenticeship programs.

11 or 12 elective (4 credits)           12 elective (2 or 4 credits)*
11 or 12 elective (4 credits)           12 elective (4 credits)
11 or 12 elective (4 credits)           12 elective (4 credits)
*One additional 2 or 4 credit course if a 2 credit 12 elective chosen.

  

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Selected Studies Courses

Selected studies courses may be chosen from any of the following program areas:

BUSINESS EDUCATION
Accounting 11
Applied Accounting 12
Financial Accounting 12
Management Innovation 12
Consumer Education 12
Business Computer Applications 11
Data Management 12
Marketing 11/12
HUMANITIES
English Literature 12
Journalism/Media 12
Writing 12

MATHEMATICS
Calculus 12 (Locally Developed)
Intro Mathematics 11
Mathematics 11, 12

MODERN LANGUAGES
Japanese 11 (Beginners'), 11, 12
Mandarin 11 (Beginners'), 11, 12
French (Beginners'), 11, 12

 SCIENCES
Biology 11, 12
Chemistry 11, 12
Information Technology 11 (Comp. Studies 11)
Information Technology 12 (Comp. Science 12)
Earth Science 11
Geology 12
Physics 11, 12

SOCIAL STUDIES
Comparative Civilizations 12
Geography 12
History 12
Law 12

ART
Art 11, 12
Art Careers 12
VAMT 11, 12

CP Work Experience 12
BC Apprentiship Program

Physical Education 11, 12
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Notes:

  1. CE12 (Consumer Education 12) can fulfil requirements #8.

  2. Selected courses should be chosen to satisfy post-secondary pre-requisites.

  3. Grade 12 courses may have a Grade 11 pre-requisite which must be completed.

  4. Adult students enrolled in the Regular Graduation Program must write Provincial Examinations in all provincially examinable courses completed.
  5. Upon completion of the Regular Graduation Program students may apply for graduation through their former home school, or through Community Education Services. See an Academic Advisor for further information.
  6. Academic advising is available at several locations. Please bring a copy of your school record or transcript to the advising session.

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Adult Secondary School Graduation Program

The Ministry of Education has developed regulations to assist adults whose formal education has been interrupted to reach a level of education identical with regular secondary scgiik graduation.

To be eligible to graduate on this program, adult students (19 years of age or over) must earn at least 20 credits in the secondary system or five courses in the post-secondary system. Courses and credits can be counted from either or both of the following:

 
BC School System
Secondary Qualifying Courses
  
College ABE Program
Qualifying Courses
1. Language Arts 12                             4 credit course   or   A Provincial Level English or high
2. Mathematics 11 or 12                       4 credit course   or   An Advanced or Provincial Level or higher Mathematics
3. Three Grade 12                                       12 credits
Ministry-authorized
Courses (4 credits each)

Or

Social Studies 11 (4 credits)                     12 credits
and two Grade 12
Ministry-authorized
Courses (4 credits each)

   or   Three additional courses at the Provincial Level or higher

Or

Advanced Social Sciences and two Provincial level courses or higher
  Total:                                                     20 credits   Total: 5 courses

  B.C. School System - Secondary Qualifying Courses  
1. Language Arts 12 (one of):
EN12   English 12
COM12   Communications 12
FRAL12   Francais Langue 12
TPC12   Technical Professional Communications 12		 4 credits
2. Mathematics 11 or 12 (one of):
AC11   Accounting 11
ACC12   Accounting 12
AA12   Applied Accounting 12
FA12   Financial Accounting 12
AMA11   Applied Mathematics 11
AMA12   Applied Mathematics 12
IMA11 Introductory Mathematics 11
MAA11 Mathematics 11A
MA11 Principles of Mathematics 11
MA12 Principles of Mathematics 12
MTH11 Principes de Mathematiques 11
MTH12 Principes de Mathematiques 12		 4 credits
3. Three Grade 12 Ministry Authorized Courses (4 credits each):
(Choose from courses shown below)
or
Social Studies 11 (4 credits) and two ministry authorized courses of 4 credits each
(Choose from courses shown below)		 12 credits

12 credits
  Total 20 credits

Students may choose their qualifying courses from the list below with particular attention to the students career goals or plans for post-secondary education.

ART
Art 11, 12
Art Careers 12
Visual Art 2D 11, 12
Visual Arts: Media Arts 11, 12

BUSINESS EDUCATION
Accounting 11
Accounting 12
Applied Accounting 12
Financial Accounting 12
Business Management 12
Business Computer Applications 11
Business Information Management 12
Consumer Education 12
Data Management 12
Data Processing 11, 12
Information Technology 11, 12
Management Innovations 12
Entrepreneurship 12
Marketing 11, 12
Economics 12
Tourism 11, 12

LANGUAGE ARTS
Communications 11, 12
English 11, 12
English Literature 12
Technical Professional Com. 12
Writing 12

MATHEMATICS
Calculus 12
Intro. Mathematics 11
Principles of Mathematics 11, 12
Mathematics 11A

MODERN LANGUAGES
French 11, 12
Introductory Japanese 11
Japanese 11, 12
Introductory Mandarin 11
Mandarin 11, 12
Introductory Spanish 11
Spanish 11, 12

SCIENCES
Biology 11, 12
Chemistry 11, 12
Information Technology 11, 12
Earth Science 11
Geology 12
Physics 11, 12

SOCIAL STUDIES
Social Studies 11
Geography 12
History 12
Law 12
Comparative Civilizations 12

Physical Education 11, 12
Career And Preparation Program *4 credits*

CP Work Experience 12
AR11, 12
ARC12
VA2D11,12
VAMT11, 12


AC11
ACC12
AA12
FA12
BM12
BCA11
BIM12
CE12
DM12
DP11, 12
INT11, 12
MI12
ENT12
MK11, 12
EC12
TRM11, 12


COM11, 12
EN11, 12
LIT12
TPC12
WR12


XCALC12
IMA11
MA11, 12
MAA11


FR11, 12
BJA11
JA11, 12
BMAN11
MAN11, 12
BSP11
SP11, 12


BI11, 12
CH11, 12
INT11, 12
ESC11
GEOL12
PH11, 12


SS11
GEO12
HI12
LAQ12
CCN12

PE11, 12
CAPP12

CPWE12A
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Notes:

  1. Some Grade 12 courses have a Grade 11 prerequisite which must be met.
  2. A Grade 11 beginners' language course does not serve as a prerequisite for the Grade 12 language course.
  3. Students enrolled in the Adult Diploma program are not required to write Provincial Examinations, but may choose to do so.
  4. Students on the Adult Dogwood program may not use any 2 credit course toward completion of graduation requirements.

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Additional Information about the Adult Diploma
  1. To be eligible for the Adult Graduation Diploma, a person must be 19 years or older. An eighteen year-old who has been out of school for at least one year may be admitted to an adult program with approval from the enrolling institution.
  2. Three courses must be completed through enrollment in a course or Prior Learning Assessment after enrolling in an adult program. Prior Learning Assessment may be used to meet any of the requirements for the Adult Diploma. Prior Learning Assessment involves a variety of techniques including equivalency reviews, challenge processes, indepth interviews, etc.
  3. In the secondary system Provincial Exams are optional for students on an adult program. If the student choose not to write a provincial exam, the grade will be reported with a "Q" code. It should be noted that some post-secondary institutions may not accept examinable courses for admission purposes unless the secondary system provincial exam has been written. The ministry of Education and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and Technology are reviewing options that would enable college ABE students to access Provincial Exams.
  4. Any course that is Ministry-authorized by either the Ministry of Education (4 credits) or the Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and Technology as requirements for graduation may be used towards the BC Adult Graduation Diploma.

    5. COUNSELLING
    Counselling is available at several locations. Please bring a copy of your school transcript or other school documents to the counselling session. These documents are used to confirm tuition status or to verify prerequisites for some courses.

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