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.
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: Through an online survey instructors will be asked to verify that syllabi contain all requirements in the UF and General Education syllabi checklists. Instructors will also be asked to verify that syllabi have met all designation-specific requirements. This survey will be completed on a yearly basis.
Step 2: State Core courses indicating they are missing syllabi requirements will be shepherded through a revision process to ensure they are compliant.
Step 3: Non-State Core courses that indicate they are missing syllabi requirements will be shepherded through a revision process to ensure they are compliant.
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 and ensure the syllabi meet all requirements:
After the initial round of self-auditing in Spring 2024 it is anticipated that verifying the syllabi checklists will be a ~10 minute task as instructors prepare courses prior to each semester.