Student Responsibility
Computer Requirement
Transfer Credit
Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Option
Probation and Suspension
Dropping Courses
Correspondence Study
Foreign Language Proficiency or Quantitative Option Requirement
Professional Limit
Outside Concentration
Minors
Internships
Second Degree
The most important fact a student can remember about academic advising is that he or she is responsible for earning a degree. While the college maintains an academic advisory service and carefully works to keep accurate student records, the student personally is responsible for meeting all degree requirements.
Therefore, a careful reading of these requirements is advised, and each student is urged to visit an adviser at least once each semester to review his or her progress. Computerized universal tracking audits indicating each student's academic progress are mailed to students in the fall and spring semesters.
Computer requirements vary by major and may change. In general, students need access to and ongoing use of a near state-of-the-art computer capable of Internet access, printing and running recent versions of software for word processing, graphical web browsing, database operations, statistics analysis and presentations. Some students, depending on coursework, will need computers capable of desktop publishing, digital photo editing, web design and audio/ video editing.
Refer to the university's home page at www.ufl.edu or to the CIRCA home page at www.circa.ufl.edu/computers for general computer information as well as a link to the college's web page for specific requirements for each program.
Students may transfer up to 60 semester hours from a community college. Hours taken over 60 may meet certain requirements but will not count toward graduation. After 60 hours, credit taken as a transient student at another university can be transferred to UF. Permission to take transfer work after a student has earned 90 credits must be received by filing a petition in 1000 Weimer Hall. Professional courses required for one's major generally cannot be taken at other schools.
Undergraduate students in the college may take no courses designated ADV, FIL, JOU, MMC, PUR or RTV under the Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory (S-U) option, except courses which are offered only for an S-U grade.
Students are encouraged to take elective courses outside the college on an S-U basis, subject to university rules published in the Academic Regulations section of this catalog.
Once the S-U option is approved, students may not elect to convert to a letter-grade. Gordon Rule courses may not be taken S-U. While no required course may be taken under the S-U option, courses for outside concentration credit may be taken with the following restrictions (in addition to university restrictions):
A junior or senior will be placed on college probation if he or she fails to maintain a 2.0 overall average and a 2.0 professional average. A student will be suspended if either or both of these averages fall below a 2.0 GPA for two consecutive terms. Students on college suspension must successfully petition the college admissions and petitions committee for reinstatement.
Freshmen and sophomores follow the university probation and dismissal policies, as stated in the Academic Regulations section of this catalog.
The college follows university guidelines for dropping courses. After the first week of classes, a student is entitled to two "free"drops in the freshman/sophomore years and two more in the junior/senior years.
Petitions to drop courses beyond the first two will be approved only when circumstances beyond the student's control prevent the satisfactory completion of a course.
In all cases, students must file the petition with the Student Services Office, 1000 Weimer Hall. All petitions must be submitted before the deadline. After these dates, all petitions are processed through the University Senate Committee on Student Petitions in 222 Criser Hall.
No student enrolled in this college can receive credit for a required professional course in the major through correspondence study.
This requirement may be satisfied by demonstrating proficiency or completing college-level credits in a single foreign language. Students who elect the foreign language option may meet the requirement by successfully completing the second or third beginning-level course in one foreign language.
This is not a credit hour requirement, but a proficiency requirement. The requirement may be met by earning a grade of C or better or a grade of S in the terminal course of a UF 1000-level foreign language sequence.
Transfer students who plan to continue the study of a language that they began at another institution must take a placement test before registering. If minimum proficiency in a foreign language is demonstrated by examination, this will satisfy the foreign language requirement, although no credit will be granted.
Students who transfer fewer than 10 semester hours in one foreign language to the university should contact the foreign language department (Romance Languages, 170 Dauer; Germanic and Slavic Languages, 261 Dauer) immediately to take the placement exam. The exam either places the student into the correct course in the sequence or out of the requirement. In either case, students do not receive college credit for performance on the placement exam.
Students who place out of the requirement must be sure to have a letter of proficiency sent to the Student Services Office, 1000 Weimer Hall.
OR
Take any three of the following courses: ACG 2021C, ACG 2071, STA 2122 or STA 2023, STA 3024, STA 4222, CGS 2420, CGS 2531, CGS 2532,CGS 3063, CGS 3403, CGS 3460 or CGS 3462.
Statistics and computer courses listed under the quantitative option can apply three hours toward the general education mathematical sciences requirement.
OR
Complete two college semesters of American Sign Language.
The college stresses a broad background in liberal arts and sciences. The student spends about three-fourths of his or her time on general background courses. The remaining one-fourth involves the development of professional techniques in relation to this background knowledge.
Because the college insists on this broad background of general education, the number of professional credits applied toward graduation is limited. The college permits 34 professional credits (ADV, FIL, JOU, MMC, PUR and RTV) to be applied toward graduation.
Professional courses as defined by the college and accepted by transfer are counted toward the 34 total credits. A student must earn a minimum of 90 hours of non-college courses as part of the 124 hours required. (Sixty-five semester hours must be in liberal arts and sciences.) You can apply no more than six hours of activity courses in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences.
A portion of the student's required 90 credit hours from outside the college must constitute an outside concentration.
The outside concentration for the college is 12 hours in one academic department or an approved area of study, as recommended by the department to meet specific career goals. In either option, 9 of the 12 hours must be at the 3000-level or above, unless they are prerequisites. Courses used to fulfill the outside concentration cannot be used to meet other requirements.
Students in this college can elect a minor in lieu of the outside concentration. To initiate a minor and obtain the courses required, the student must contact 100 Academic Advising Center.
Minors are available in the following subjects: actuarial science, African studies, Anthropology, applied and professional ethics, Arabic, Asian studies and astronomy; botany; chemistry, classical studies, computer and information sciences, communication studies (speech), communication sciences and disorders and criminology; East Asian languages and literatures, economics and English; French; geography, geology, German and gerontology; history; Jewish studies; Latin American studies and linguistics; mathematics; philosophy, physics and Portuguese; religion and Russian; sociology, Spanish and statistics; women's studies and zoology.
Students can also minor in business administration. Information is available in 100 Stuzin Hall. Other minors are available in agriculture (1001 McCarty), education (134-E Norman), fine arts (101 Fine Arts A) and health and human performance (203 Florida Gym).
Many students earn credits by serving internships. Students are urged to use their elective hours within the college for this purpose. All students in all departments must work 150 hours for each hour of credit. Internship credit can be repeated with change of assignment for a maximum of three credits.
Students wishing to specialize in more than one field can earn a second bachelor's degree in this college by completing an additional 30 credits of work, with the necessary qualitative and residence requirements. Individuals who wish to earn a second bachelor's degree must petition for admission to the department in which they wish to study.