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1007.25 General education courses; common prerequisites; other degree requirements.(1) The department shatt identify the degree programs offered by pubtic postsecondary educational
institutions.

(2)

The department shatl identify postsecondary career education programs offered by Ftorida Cottege
System institutions and district schoot boards. The department shat[ atso identify career courses designated as
cotlege credit courses applicabte toward a career education diptoma or degree. Such courses must be

identified within the statewide course numbering system.

(3) The chair of the State Board of Education and the chair of the Board of Governors, or their designees,
shatt jointty appoint facutty committees to identify statewide genera[ education core course options. General
education core course options shatl consist of a maximum of five courses within each of the subject areas of
communication, mathematics, sociat sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The core courses may be
revised, or the five-course maximum within each subject area may be exceeded, if approved by the State
Board of Education and the Board of Governors, as recommended by the subject area facutty committee and
approved by the Articutation Coordinating Committee as necessary for a subject area. Each generat education
core course option must contain high-tevel academic and critical thinking skitts and common competencies
that students must demonstrate to successfulty comptete the course. Beginning with students initiatty
entering a Ftorida Cottege System institution or state university in 2015-2016 and thereafter, each student
must comptete at teast one identified core course in each subject area as part of the general education
course requirements. Att public postsecondary educational institutions shatl accept these courses as meeting
genera[ education core course requirements. The remaining generat education course requirements shatl be
identified by each institution and reported to the department by their statewide course number. The general
education core course options shatt be adopted in rute by the State Board of Education and in regutation by
the Board of Governors.
(4) The department shatt identify those courses offered by universities and accepted for credit toward a
degree. The department shatl identify courses designated as either general education or required as a
prerequisite for a degree. The courses shatt be identified by their statewide course numbers.
(5) The department shalt identify common prerequisite courses and course substitutions for degree
programs across att institutions. Common degree program prerequisites shall be offered and accepted by att
state universities and Ftorida College System institutions, except in cases approved by the State Board of
Education for Ftorida Cottege System institutions and the Board of Governors for state universities. The
department shatl devetop a centratized database containing the list of courses and course substitutions that
meet the prerequisite requirements for each baccataureate degree program.
(6) The universities and Ftorida Cottege System institutions shatl work with their schoot districts to ensure
that high school curricula coordinate with the genera[ education curricuta and to prepare students for
cottege-tevet work. General education curricuta for associate in arts programs shatt be identified by each
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institution and include 36 semester hours in the subject areas of communication, mathematics, social
sciences, humanities, and natura[ sciences.
(71 An associate in arts degree shatt require no more than 60 semester hours of cottege credit and include
36 semester hours of generat education coursework. Beginning with students initialty entering a Ftorida
Cottege System institution or state university in2014-2Q15 and thereafter, coursework for an associate in arts
degree sha[[ inctude demonstration of competency in a foreign language pursuant to s. 1007.267. Except for
devetopmentateducation required pursuant to s. 1008.30, alt required coursework shatl count toward the
associate in arts degree or the baccataureate degree.
(8) A baccataureate degree program shatt require no more than 120 semester hours of cottege credit and
inctude 36 semester hours of generat education coursework, untess prior approval has been granted by the
Board of Governors for baccataureate degree programs offered by state universities and by the State Board of
Education for baccataureate degree programs offered by Ftorida Cotlege System institutions.
(9) A student who received an associate in arts degree for successfutty compteting 60 semester credit
hours may continue to earn additionat credits at a Ftorida Cottege System institution. The university must
provide credit toward the student's baccataureate degree for an additionat Ftorida Coltege System institution
course if, according to the statewide course numbering, the Ftorida Cotlege System institution course is a
course [isted in the university catatog as required for the degree or as prerequisite to a course required for
the degree. Of the courses required for the degree, at least hatf of the credit hours required for the degree
shatl be achievable through courses designated as lower division, except in degree programs approved by the
State Board of Education for programs offered by Ftorida Cottege System institutions and by the Board of
Governors for programs offered by state universities.
(10) Students at state universities may request associate in arts certificates if they have successfu[ty
compteted the minimum requirements for the degree of associate in arts (A.A.). The university must grant
the student an associate in arts degree if the student has successfutty compteted minimum requirements for
cottege-tevet communication and computation skitts adopted by the State Board of Education and 60
academic semester hours or the equivatent within a degree program area, including 36 semester hours in
general education courses in the subject areas of communication, mathematics, social sciences, humanities,
and naturat sciences, consistent with the general education requirements specified in the articutation
agreement pursuant to s. 1007.23.

(11)

The Commissioner of Education shatt appoint facutty committees representing both Florida Cotlege

System institution and pubtic school facutties to recommend to the commissioner for approvat by the State

Board of Education a standard program tength and appropriate occupationa[ comptetion points for each
postsecondary career certificate program, diptoma, and degree offered by a schoot district or a FLorida
Cottege System institution.
History.-s.351, ch.2002-387's.107,ch.2004-357; s.115, ch.2007-217; s.20, ch.2009-59; s.93, ch.2011-5; s.8, ch.2011177i s. 10, ch. 201 2-1 95; s. 1 5, ch. 201 3-51

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