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.

• 52 credits are required from the following
  • Career-Life Education10 (4 credits)
  • Career-Life Connections 12 (4 credits)
  • Physical and Health Education 10 (4 credits)
  • Science 10 (4 credits)
  • Science 11 or 12 (4 credits)
  • Social Studies 10 (4 credits)
  • Social Studies 11 or 12 (4 credits)
  • a Math 10 (4 credits)
  • a Math 11 or 12 (4 credits)
  • a Language Arts 10 (4 credits total)
  • a Language Arts 11 (4 credits total)
  • a Language Arts 12 (4 credits total)
  • an Arts Education 10, 11, or 12
    and/or
  • an Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 10, 11, or 12 (4 credits total)
• At least 16 credits must be at the Grade 12 level, including
  • •  Language Arts 12 (English First Peoples 12 or English Studies 12 (4 credits)
    • Career Life Connections & Capstone project (4 credits)
• At least 28 credits must be elective course credits
  • any other course(s) not indicated above is `considered` an elective
• In addition, students must also complete three graduation assessments:
  • The Grade 10 Numeracy Assessment was introduced in 2018
  • The Grade 10 Literacy Assessment was introduced in 2019/20
  • The Grade 12 Literacy Assessment will be introduced in 2021/22

Source: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/support/graduation