The General Studies Diploma (GSD) is a flexible 20 course with 60 credit program offered at Royal Bridge College that allows students to choose courses that are most relevant to their academic and professional goals. After completion of the General Studies diploma, students will demonstrate foundational skills in communication, numeracy, and social sciences or economic and business literacy.
RBCo’s General Studies diploma is flexible to allow students to explore courses from a variety of areas of study for their specialization; applied, and professional program credits; tailor a program of study to specific needs of their academic and workplace, and complete entrance and lower-level requirements for degree-level study and professional programs as per transfer agreements of RBCo with the degree-granting institution. for their field of interest for specialization, students may talk to the Manager, Recruitment and Admission.
Upon completion of this program, the successful student will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of multiple social science disciplines in which student is enrolled.
- Demonstrate effective communication in a public setting and with co-workers/clients in the workplace environment.
- Use quantitative techniques to advance critical thinking and facilitate problem-solving
- Identify relevant social and cultural issues or barriers required to enhance collaboration and team-building success in organizational and collective societal settings and suggest plausible solutions.
- Identify and analyze complex human interaction and behavior in various situations/ cultural contexts and explain the importance of the same.
