General Education

 

All undergraduate students (except those transferring with an AA degree from either a Florida public community college or a Florida public state university) are required to complete the 36-hour General Education requirement in order to graduate.

The common, collective knnowledge about the world enables us to communicate, to make informed decisions about many aspects of our lives, and to understand and participate fully as informed citizens in matters local, national, and global. By attaining competency in goals and methods in the humanities, physicl and biological sciences, mathematics, and social/behavioral sciences, we can better understand ourselves, our neighbors, other cultures and times, and the principles governing the natural world and our universe. In General Education courses, students gain fresh perspectives, methods, and tools for understanding both the traditional and newly discovered.

For the College of Engineering, the general education distribution is as follows:

Area	General Education Code	Credits
Composition (note 1)	C	3
Mathematical Sciences (note 2)	M	6
Humanities	H	6
Social/Behavioral Sciences (note 6)	S	6
Humanities or Social/Behavioral Sciences (note 5)	H or S	3
Physical & Biological Sciences (note 3)	P or B	9
International Diversity Focus (note 4)	I	0-6

Note 1 - this is satisfied by ENC 2210 Technical Writing

Note 2 - this is satisfied by the calculus sequence

Note 3 - this is satisfied by the chemistry, physics with calculus and biological science courses required in the engineering degrees

Note 4 - to minimize credits, students are strongly encouraged to take courses in the Biological Sciences, Social/Behavioral Science and Humanities areas that also are coded as International. As an example: courses that are BI, SI or HI such as ANT 2301 which is an SI, ARC 1701C which is an HI, or WIS 2552 which is a BI.

Note 5 - the course can be either humanities or social/behavioral sciences.