Graduation & Requirements

Dogwood Diploma - at a glance:

The B.C. Certificate of Graduation or "Dogwood Diploma" is awarded to students who successfully complete the provincial graduation requirements.

Students require a minimum of 80 credits to graduate.

Of these 80 credits:

• At least 16 credits must be at the Grade 12 level, including a required Language Arts 12
• At least 28 credits must be elective course credits 
• 52 credits are required from the following: 
  • Career-Life Education (4 credits), and Career-Life Connections (4 credits) 
  • Physical and Health Education 10 (4 credits)
  • Science 10 (4 credits), and a Science 11 or 12 (4 credits)
  • Social Studies 10 (4 credits), and a Social Studies 11 or 12 (4 credits)
  • A Math 10 (4 credits), and a Math 11 or 12 (4 credits)
  • A Language Arts 10, 11 and a required 12 (12 credits total)
  • An Arts Education 10, 11, or 12 and/or an Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 10, 11, or 12 (4 credits total) 

In addition, students must also complete three new graduation assessments:

• The new Grade 10 Graduation Numeracy Assessment was introduced in 2018
• The new Grade 10 Graduation Literacy Assessment will be introduced in 2019/20
• The New Grade 12 Graduation Literacy Assessment will be introduced in 2020/21

For further details go to the BC Ministry of Education website

• New Graduation Program (BC Ministry of Education)
• BC Ministry of Education Graduation Information
• BC Dogwood Planner
• Graduation Planning Information
• Thompson Rivers University