Diploma in Sciences humaines is a diploma in Social Sciences & Education programme offered by Cégep de Saint-Laurent in Montréal, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,150 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Social Sciences & Education
Duration: 2 years
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
International tuition: CAD 15,150 / year
Last checked September 2026 · Source: cegepsl.qc.ca ·
Program details
Overview
Sciences humaines is a two-year pre-university DEC spanning seven disciplines, anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology, intended to prepare informed, critically engaged citizens for university study. All students share a common first-year core, introductory psychology, world history since the 15th century, sociology, global economics and social-science research methods, followed by political regimes, world geography, anthropology of cultural diversity and qualitative research methods, before choosing a profile partway through the second session. In the Action sociale, justice et environnement profile, students examine current social issues and the range of solutions that governments, social groups and individuals can bring to them, building toward more advanced electives on social innovation, sociological inquiry into precarity and solidarity, and societal crisis. Graduates in this profile can continue toward university studies in the broader social sciences and helping professions. The program can also be combined as a double DEC with Arts visuels, Cinema et communication, Danse, Langues, Litterature or Musique, and integrates eco-citizenship components into select courses.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This two-year Préuniversitaire program is non-quota: applications that meet its conditions are generally admitted. Prerequisites depend on the profile chosen partway through the first year: the Mathématiques, économie et société profile requires TS or SN Mathematics from 5th secondary (or Mathematics 526); every other profile requires CST Mathematics from 4th secondary (or Mathematics 416). General admission still runs through Cégep de Saint-Laurent's own conditions applied for through SRAM (a DES, a DEP plus the specified 5th-secondary language and 4th-secondary mathematics passes, or judged-equivalent training). Across every program at the Cégep, school-record quality is the main selection criterion: for secondary-school applicants that means 4th- and 5th-secondary results as they stand when they apply, and college-level results count too for anyone who has already attended a cégep.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants to Cégep de Saint-Laurent apply through the shared SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca) serving Montréal-region cégeps. For Winter 2027, applications opened 15 September 2026, Round 1 closes 1 November 2026 and Round 2 closes 25 November 2026, with unfilled seats carried forward. SRAM has not yet posted Fall 2027 domestic dates. Internationally, SRAM's Fall 2027 window runs 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027; its next window (Winter 2028) runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is rolling by round, not a single fixed date. Cégep de Saint-Laurent's own website (cegepsl.qc.ca) was unreachable (repeated connection timeouts) this session; the dates above come directly from SRAM. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
