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Diploma in General Studies

The Diploma in General Studies recognizes individualized achievement in education. Choose courses that you find most relevant to your personal and professional goals. Gain a foundation of knowledge and experience that fits your learning path, while maintaining the ability to transfer credits to post-secondary institutions.

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Diploma

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Program details

The Diploma in General Studies recognizes individualized achievement in education. Choose courses that you find most relevant to your personal and professional goals. Gain a foundation of knowledge and experience that fits your learning path, while maintaining the ability to transfer credits to post-secondary institutions.

Please apply to the Associate of Arts or Science program.

This program has not been scheduled. Contact askoc@okanagan.bc.ca for more information.

Admission requirements

Regular Applicants:

A regular applicant will be a secondary graduate or a secondary school student, or its equivalent, who has or who will complete the requirements for senior secondary graduation, or its equivalent, not less than one month prior to commencement of classes for the semester to which admission is sought - either fall or winter. The following minimum entrance requirements will apply to regular applicants:

  • B.C. secondary school graduation, or equivalent.
  • English 12 with minimum 60% or .

Students with a passing grade of less than 60% in English 12, English 12 First Peoples or TPC 12 will be admissible to the first year of the Associate of Arts Degree, subject to the following conditions:

  1. Registration is restricted to courses for which the student satisfies the prerequisites. Registration in first-year English courses is, therefore, prohibited.

  2. Successful completion of the English entrance requirements within the first year of studies. This may be done in one of the following ways:

    • Successful completion of English 12, English 12 First Peoples or TPC 12 or an equivalent course with a minimum grade of 60%. This may be done concurrently through the College's Adult Basic Education Program or by completing an equivalent course through a distance education program.

Mature Applicants:

A mature applicant will be at least 19 years of age and will not have attended secondary school on a full-time basis for a minimum period of one year.

Secondary graduation is waived for mature applicants. The English entrance requirements, as stated above, must be satisfied prior to admission. Admission may be granted on the condition that the entrance requirements will be completed prior to the commencement of classes for the semester to which admission is sought - either fall or winter.


Transfer Students:

Students who transfer to ÂÒÂ׺£½Ç may be eligible for transfer credits towards an ÂÒÂ׺£½Ç Associate of Arts degree, Associate of Science degree or a General Studies diploma for work successfully completed at another recognized institution.

Program outline

The Diploma in General Studies may be granted for the successful completion of 60 credits of ÂÒÂ׺£½Ç courses including at least eighteen credits of 200-level courses. Only thirty credits of courses can be from a single discipline.

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