Undergraduate Affairs
The General Education Program at the University of Florida imparts knowledge to enable students to communicate, to make informed decisions about their lives, to understand and to participate fully as informed citizens in local, national and global matters.
The purpose of this audit is to examine and to ensure that all UF General Education courses meet current program standards, after which UF’s accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, examine the rationale and ensure the breadth of knowledge in the way that we are managing and providing General Education.
The Audit Subcommittee's goal is to establish the process for auditing General Education courses and to have the process be a continual one from here on out. It is not a “one and done” process.
Each year a subset of courses to will be chosen to audit. The process for selecting courses to audit is under development. More information will be forthcoming.
The Audit Subcommittee will review materials from the course to determine if all requirements in the various checklists are being met (see Instructor Responsibilities for details). These could include, but are not limited to:
The audit will proceed in several steps.
Step 1: All instructors will be asked to verify that syllabi contain all requirements in the UF and General Education syllabi checklists.
Step 2: General Education designation-specific checklists used in the audit will be provided. Instructors will be asked to verify that syllabi have met all requirements in the designation-specific checklist.
Step 3: The auditing of selected courses will begin in the later half of Spring 2023. The audit will first focus on courses with Biological Sciences (B), Physical Sciences (P), or Mathematics (M) designation, or some combination of these three designations. The audit will not yet consider General Education courses that also have Quest designations or designations other than B, P, and M.
If there are courses you would like to remove from the General Education program, please use the following link:
Each semester, instructors should check the Schedule of Courses to verify the course classification (is it Gen Ed? What designation category? Quest? Writing? - see image below), and ensure the syllabi meet all requirements:
After the initial round of self-auditing in Spring 2023 it is anticipated that verifying the syllabi checklists will be a ~10 minute task as instructors prepare courses prior to each semester.