Civic Literacy Requirement

The Florida Legislature and Board of Governors have modified the Civic Literacy Requirement effective 2024 to include additional accelerated mechanism options for completing the course and exam components. Please talk to your academic advisor about whether  you need to take the test and a class, and return to this web site regularly as further details are clarified from our Florida Board of Governors.

The University of Florida requires all incoming students for the 2018-2019 academic year and beyond, to meet the Civic Literacy requirement.  All first-time-in-college (FTIC) students entering all Florida College System (FCS) and State University System (SUS) institutions must demonstrate competency in civic literacy by the time they graduate per Florida Statute 1007.25 and Florida Board of Governors Regulation 8.006. UF students can meet this State requirement in a number of ways:

Fulfilling this civic literacy requirement will be essential for graduation from the University of Florida, and, because of increased attention needed for upper division studies, students are strongly encouraged to complete the requirement before the end of their second year.  The transcript of every student who has met this requirement will include a notation that indicates the requirement has been met.

*Note: Courses taken prior to Fall 2018 do not satisfy the civic literacy requirement as those courses did not include the competencies required by statute until Fall 2018.