General Studies
Begin your professional studies while investing in your faith.
Briercrest’s Bachelor of General Studies is for students who want to pursue a professional career and begin their studies in a Christian environment. Students can choose from one of two tracks within the program: Education or Arts and Science. The foundation you build in your Briercrest classes will set you up for further specific career training in fields like health care, education, law, business, and a variety of other fields.
Briercrest's Bachelor of General Studies is provincially authorized as a university-level degree, making it a recognized, highly transferrable foundation for your career next steps.

Discover your passions
With the opportunity to choose your teaching areas or concentrations, you can explore your interests and prepare for a career while working towards a bachelor's degree in an atmosphere of Christian discipleship.
Join our community
Study in a community dedicated to seeking Jesus together. Explore the person and teachings of Jesus in classes and chapel as you learn to follow His call for your life.
Broaden your horizons
Prepare to serve competently in a variety of marketplace or ministry settings. Gain a diverse set of academic, social, and practical skills that will equip you for your next move.
- Overview
- Requirements
The Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) is a strong foundation-building, pathway program with considerable flexibility for students. The degree is aligned with Briercrest’s educational mission in the liberal arts and provides manifold pathways to professional disciplines and industries. There are two tracks available within the BGS: Education, and Arts and Science. The BGS Education track is designed to meet the “teachable” requirements for an after-degree, Bachelor of Education (Elementary Education Stream and Secondary Education Stream. The BGS Arts and Science track will largely proceed to further specific career training in fields such as: medicine and health care, teaching or education, law studies, business, and a variety of other professional fields. While the Bachelor of General Studies is itself an employable degree, it sets students on a course into many employable fields within Saskatchewan and Canada.
Outcomes
Graduates of the Bachelor of General Studies will be able to:
- Identify and evaluate thematic connections between two or more disciplines.
- Demonstrate a familiarity with the content and methodologies of at least two distinct academic and/or professional disciplines.
The Bachelor of General Studies requires students to choose two concentrations (three for Elementary Education). Beyond these disciplinary concentrations, the degree requires 24 credit hours at the 300+ level, ensuring a measure of depth. The design of this program first attends to the common core and then proceeds to the specific components of the curriculum as follows…
Christian Studies (27 credit hours) & Foundational Studies (18 credit hours).
- Education Track – Education Foundations (9 c.h.)
- Elementary Education
- Primary Teaching Area (18-22 c.h.)
- Second Teaching Area (12 c.h.)
- Second Teaching Area (6 c.h.)
- Secondary Education
- Primary Teaching Area (30 c.h.)
- Second Teaching Area (18-22 c.h.)
- Elementary Education
- Arts and Science Track
- Concentration One (24-33 c.h.)
- Concentration Two (15 c.h.)
Major Requirements for Education Track:
- Educational Foundations (9 credit hours):
EDUC 200 Foundations of Education
EDUC 205 Education Pre-Internship (non-credit)
PHI 300 Philosophy of Education
PSY 381 Psychology of Human Development: Children (elementary education track)
OR PSY 382 Psychology of Human Development: Adolescents (secondary education track)
- Elementary Education (36-40 credit hours)
- Primary Teaching Area - Choose one area (18-22 credit hours):
English, Kinesiology, Music, Social Studies - Second Teaching Area - Choose one area (12 credit hours):
English, History, Kinesiology, Music, Social Studies - Third Teaching Area (6 credit hours):
KIN 262 Physical Activity and Wellness
Science (choose from the following):
BIOL 120 The Nature of Life
CHEM 112 General Chemistry
EVSC 210 Environmental Physics
PHYS 125 Physics and the Universe
Free Electives (to bring credit hour total to 90 credit hours)
- Primary Teaching Area - Choose one area (18-22 credit hours):
- Secondary Education (48-52 credit hours)
- Primary Teaching Area – Choose one (30 credit hours):
English or Social Studies - Second Teaching Area – Choose one (18-22 credit hours):
Cannot be the same as your primary teaching area English, Music, or Social Studies
Free Electives (to bring credit hour total to 90 credit hours)
- Primary Teaching Area – Choose one (30 credit hours):
Major Requirements for Arts and Science Track:
- Concentration One - Choose one of the following disciplines (24-33 credit hours):
Biblical Studies, English, History, Humanities, Music and Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology, or Social Science
- Concentration Two - Choose one of the following disciplines which is distinct from the first concentration (15 credit hours): Biblical Studies, English, History, Kinesiology, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, or Social Science
- Free Electives (to bring credit hour total to 90 credit hours)
PRT 400 Senior Portfolio (non-credit)
SL 1-6 Service and Experiential Learning (non-credit)
In addition, all Bachelor's degrees require the completion of Briercrest's core curriculum.
Faculty

Assistant Professor of English Literature

Associate Professor of History

Assistant Professor of History

Instructor in Kinesiology

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics

Associate Professor of English
Your Future
Possible Careers
- Business manager
- Elementary school teacher
- Nurse practitioner
- High school teacher
- Lawyer
Continuing Education
- Education After-Degree
- Accelerated Bachelor's in Nursing
- Licensed Practical Nurse Certificate
- Juris Doctor (JD) Law Degree
- After-Degree in Journalism