Course Offerings

For course descriptions and prerequisite information please visit the link below.

Gr 9 - 12 Course descriptions and Prerequisite

Choices: The Course Selection Placemat is your guide to life at a TDSB high school. With the support of your Guidance Counsellor and teachers, you’ll learn about career planning, program options, expectations and responsibilities while on your way to earning your diploma. All students will receive a copy of the ‘Choices: 9-12 Placemat’ during course selection time that will outline the step-by-step process for choosing courses and help you make decisions for the following year. 

Course Selection - myBlueprint

On TBA all students in all grades will have the opportunity to learn about the course selection process for the upcoming year. Parents and guardians will also be able to participate in the process by joining.  Signed course selections printouts will be due to period 1 teachers by TBA.    

Parents of Graduating Students - While some of your children may need to return to our school or move beyond Don Mills CI to pursue additional courses, the information session presented to Grade 12 students includes facts about final marks, deadlines and scholarship and financial aid opportunities as they anticipate post-secondary offers. It's important to note that a 100% completion of the IPP portion of My Blueprint makes students eligible for some local scholarships and bursaries.

Please feel free to contact your child’s alpha counselor so that we can meet to discuss the best possible pathway for their successful futures.

Kenneth McDowell – Alpha A - D

Paul Stoitsiadis – Alpha E – M

Maria Carey - Alpha N - Z 

Rory Stretch - International Students

Getting Your Diploma: OSSD

In order to obtain an Ontario secondary school diploma (OSSD), students must earn a total of 30 credits.  Students must successfully complete 18 compulsory credits and 12 optional credits along with completing the Ontario literacy requirement, and complete 40 community involvement hours.

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) Requirements

• Successful completion of Literacy requirement
• 40 hours of community involvement (Community Involvement Activity Notification and Completion Form)
• 30 credits required for graduation:
  (18 compulsory and 12 optional)
  • 4 English, one per grade level
  • 1 French as a second language
  • 3 Mathematics, at least one in Grade 11 or 12
  • 2 Science
  • 1 Canadian geography
  • 1 Canadian history
  • 1 Arts (dance, drama, media, music, visual arts)
  • 1 Health and physical education
  • 0.5 Civics
  • 0.5 Career studies

Plus one credit from each of the following groups:
Group 1:

• An additional English credit
• French as a second language*
• A third language credit
• Social Sciences and Humanities 
• Canadian and World Studies 
• Guidance and Career Education 
• Cooperative Education *

Group 2: 

• Business Studies
• Health and Physical Education
• The Arts
• Cooperative Education *
• French as a second language *

Group 3:

• Grade 11 or 12 Science
• Technological Education
• Computer Studies
• Cooperative Education*
• French as a second language *

Plus 12 optional credits

* A maximum of two credits in Cooperative Education and two credits in French can count as compulsory credits.

Community Involvement:

Since September 1, 1999, one of the requirements for all students in Ontario is to complete 40 hours of community involvement in order to receive an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). The purpose of this requirement is to encourage students to develop an understanding of civic responsibility and of the role they can play and the contributions they can make in supporting and strengthening their communities. Students will plan and select their community involvement activities in consultation with their parents/guardians and as part of the Individual Pathways Plan process.  To print a copy of the community involvement tracking sheet please click here