GENERAL EDUCATION

GENERAL EDUCATION (GE) - Requirements

The general education core course options are adopted in  State Board of Education (SBOE) Rule 6A-14.0303, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), and Board of Governors (BOG) Regulation 8.005.

• GE requirements prior to the award of an Associate of Arts (AA) degree: 36 credits in GE
• GE requirements prior to the award of an Associate of Science (AS) degree: 15 credits in GE
• GE requirements prior to the award of an OAD/AAS degree: 9 credits in GE
• GE requirements prior to the award of a Bachelor of Arts degree: 36-45 credits in GE
• GE requirements prior to the award of a Bachelor of Science degree: 30 credits in GE

(The duration of a Bachelor Degree Program shall be a minimum of 120 semester credit hours, 180-quarter credit hours, or the recognized clock hour equivalent. A student transferring into the institution with an Associate Degree totaling 60-credit hours, will combine these Associate credit hours with the Bachelor credit hours to meet the minimum total stated above.)

AA = Associate in Arts =  60 total credit hours - 36 credit hours of general education and 24 credit hours of electives (core + electives)

AS = Associate in Science =  60 (to 77) total credit hours - 15 credit hours of general education and 45 credit hours of electives (core + electives)

AAA = Associate in Applied Arts  = 60 total credit hours - 9 (to 15) credit hours of general education and and 51 (-45) credit hours of electives (")

AAS = Associate of Applied Science = 60 total credit hours - 9 (-15) credit hours of general education and 51 (-45) credit hours of electives  (")

OAD = Occupationale Associate Degree = 60 total credit hours - 9 credit hours of general education and 51 credit hours of electives (")

BA = Bachelor of Arts = 120 total credit hours - 36 (to 45) credit hours of general education and 84 (-75) credit hours of electives (")

BS = Bachelor of Science = 120 total credit hours - 30 credit hours of general education and 90 credit hours of electives (")

BSAS = Bachelor of Science in Applied Science (students admitted with 18 credit hours in GE)

BFA = Bachelor of Fine Arts

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8.005 General Education Core Course Options 

(1) Prior to the award of an associate in arts or baccalaureate degree, students entering a state university as a first-time-in-college student in the Fall Term 2015 and thereafter must complete at least one (1) course from each of the general education subject areas listed in this section. These courses comprise the general education core as required per section 1007.25(3), Florida Statutes. The remaining courses and credits that will fulfill the total 36-hour general education requirement are at the discretion of the state university. 

Completion of both the general education core and remaining university-specified general education courses are required for completion of an undergraduate degree. 

(a) Complete one of the following courses in Communication: 

ENC X101 English Composition I or 

A course with an ENC prefix for which ENCX101 is a direct prerequisite. 

(b) Complete one of the following courses in Humanities: 

ARH X000 Art Appreciation or 

HUM X020 Introduction to Humanities or 

LIT X000 Introduction to Literature or 

MUL X010 Introduction to Music Literature/Music Appreciation or 

PHI X010 Introduction to Philosophy or 

THE X000 Theatre Appreciation. 

(c) Complete one of the following courses in Mathematics: 

MAC X105 College Algebra or 

MAC X311 Calculus I or 

MGF X106 Liberal Arts Mathematics I or 

MGF X107 Liberal Arts Mathematics II or 

2 STA X023 Statistical Methods or 

A mathematics course for which one of the above general education core course options in mathematics is a direct prerequisite. 

(d) Complete one of the following courses in Natural Sciences: 

AST X002 Descriptive Astronomy or 

BSC X005 General Biology or 

BSC X010 General Biology I or 

BSC X085 Anatomy and Physiology I or 

CHM X020 Chemistry for Liberal Studies or 

CHM X045 General Chemistry I or 

ESC X000 Introduction to Earth Science or 

EVR X001 Introduction to Environmental Science or 

PHY X020 Fundamentals of Physics or 

PHY X048 General Physics with Calculus or 

PHY X053 General Physics I or 

A natural science course for which one of the above general education core course options in natural science is a direct prerequisite. 

(e) Complete one of the following courses in Social Sciences 

AMH X020 Introductory Survey Since 1877 or 

ANT X000 Introduction to Anthropology or 

ECO X013 Macroeconomics or 

POS X041 American Government or 

PSY X012 Introduction to Psychology or 

SYG X000 Principles of Sociology. 

(2) Students who transfer into a state university or between state universities shall be required to meet the above general education core requirements if the students were 3 classified as first-time-in-college at their original postsecondary institution Fall Term 2015 and thereafter. Any course accepted by an institution in the Florida College System or State University System as meeting the general education core at that institution shall be accepted as meeting the core requirements at all institutions. All credit earned by other transfer students shall be evaluated by the receiving institution on a course-bycourse basis to determine core equivalency. 

(3) Institutions shall report to the Statewide Course Numbering System all courses used to fulfill subject area core course options. Any course recommended to be added to the list of general education core course options from section (1) shall be reported to the Office of K-20 Articulation at http://fldoe.org/articulation for review. Institutions may apply their own course titles to the general education core course options. 

(4) Institutions must recognize credit earned through an acceleration mechanism in Section 1007.27, Florida Statutes, and Board of Governors Regulation 6.006 as meeting the related general education core course requirement. 

(5) Institutions may grant a substitution or modification to the courses listed above for eligible disabled students, subject to Board of Governors Regulation 6.018. Authority: Section 7(d), Art. IX, Fla. Const., New – 6-19-2014