Students must have a minimum average of 18 hours per week per semester or 540 credit hours and a GPA of 2.0 to receive the certificate.

Opportunity for those with previous Postsecondary Courses:
If you already have postsecondary-level courses from a recognized college or university, you may already have a substantial amount of credit toward a General Arts and Science Certificate.  You may only need to complete the required courses to qualify (refer to the policy on Transfer Credits and obtaining a Second Certificate).

For students who want to be well prepared for college we recommend they enrol in the following courses:

GE 113   Making the Grade
MC 155  Microsoft Office 2007 Applications

For students who want to prepare for postsecondary programs in the Human Services or Social Sciences we recommend they enrol in some of the following courses:

Humanities courses (HU), Psychology courses (PY) and Sociology courses (SY)

For students who want to prepare for postsecondary programs in the Arts and Humanities we recommend they enrol in some of the following courses:

Fine Arts courses (FA), Humanities courses (HU) and Music courses (MU)

For students who want to be well prepared for university we recommend they enrol in one of the following advanced communications courses (pre-requisite:  CS007)

CS 217 Communications for Health Professionals
CS 219 Communications for Technology
CS 220 Business Communications