{"id":62502,"date":"2025-12-05T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=62502"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:29:50","slug":"english-first-peoples-12-and-english-studies-12-equivalency","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/english-first-peoples-12-and-english-studies-12-equivalency\/","title":{"rendered":"English First Peoples 12 and English Studies 12 Equivalency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/for-info\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Information<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2025-12-05\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday December 05 2025<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">English First Peoples 12 and English Studies 12 Equivalency<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As there has been an increase in questions surrounding the equivalency of English First Peoples 12 and English Studies 12, the ministry would like to confirm that both courses meet the Language Arts Grade 12 graduation requirement. Students must take at least one of these courses; all other English Grade 12 courses count towards elective credit only and do not meet the graduation requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who have completed English First Peoples 12 will also fulfil the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/support\/indigenous-focused-graduation-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indigenous-focused graduation requirement<\/a>. For further information, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curriculum.gov.bc.ca\/curriculum\/english-language-arts\/12\/courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B.C. Curriculum website<\/a>\u00a0or review the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/assets\/gov\/education\/administration\/kindergarten-to-grade-12\/graduation\/graduation-policy-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graduation Program and Policy Guide<\/a>, which lists all courses that are eligible to meet each graduation requirement, including the Language Arts 12 requirement (see page 18).<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As there has been an increase in questions surrounding the equivalency of English First Peoples 12 and English Studies 12, the ministry would like to confirm that both courses meet the Language Arts Grade 12 graduation requirement. Students must take at least one of these courses; all other English Grade 12 courses count towards elective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/english-first-peoples-12-and-english-studies-12-equivalency\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[353],"release_date":[1532],"division":[1398],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[443,453,1272,1277,298],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-62502","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2025-12-05","division-epp","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-directors-of-instruction","audiences-indigenous-education-leads","audiences-online-learning-leads","audiences-online-learning-principals-and-vice-principals","audiences-principals-vice-principals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/62502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/62502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62672,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/62502\/revisions\/62672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=62502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}