General Education

2024-2025 NCF General Education Courses

Description of Requirements

The standardized general education curriculum required of all college students in the state of Florida is comprised of 40 semester credit hours (10 units). The state's general education curriculum is comprised of 20 semester credit hours (5 units) of mandated state core courses distributed across five content areas. Students must take one course from each of the five content areas. NCF also requires 20 semester credit hours (5 units) of electives from our Chart Your Course (CYC) offerings.  

Our general education curriculum helps students develop their full intellectual and personal potential. New College of Florida believes a liberal arts education should instill interest in diverse academic disciplines, inspire a regard for views different from one’s own, and assist students in acquiring important transdisciplinary skills. The general education curriculum provides students with a broadly-based liberal arts and sciences education and a variety of transferable, interdisciplinary skills. 

Humanities (State Core Requirement: 1 course)

HUM 1020 Odyssey

Natural Sciences (State Core Requirement: 1 course)

AST 2002 Descriptive Astronomy
BSC 2011 Foundations of Biology I
BSC 2010 Foundations of Biology II
BSC 2085 Anatomy & Physiology I
CHM 2045 General Chemistry I
EVR 2001 Intro to Environmental Studies
OCE 2001 Intro to Oceanography
PHY 2020 Biological Physics Seminar
PHY 2048 Physics I (Calculus-based)
PHY 2053 Physics I (Algebra-based)
Any Natural Sciences Course with prerequisite listed above

Civic Literacy (State Core Requirement: 1 course)

AMH 2010American History Survey: Pre-Colonial to 1877
AMH 2020
OS 2041

Mathematics (State Core Requirement: 1 course)

MAC 2105 Intro to Math for the Sciences
MAC 2311 Calculus I or Calc I with Theory
MGF 2130 Mathematical Thinking
STA 2023 Introduction to Statistics
Any math course with prerequisite listed above

Communication (State Core Requirement: 1 course)

ENC 1101 Composition/Writing
Any ENC course with ENC 1101 prerequisite

Chart Your Course (5 courses)

Breadth-Writing Enhanced: Any course with the CYC WEC attribute
CYC Electives (4 Courses)
FYS 2010
QUEST:
DATA 2000
Navigating AI (Recommended - Mod Credit)
Independent Study Project
Any course with a CYC atttribute

Mathematics and English Language Proficiency

Mathematics Proficiency

All New College students must demonstrate the required basic proficiency in mathematics in one of the following ways:

  1. Satisfactory completion of a course that fulfills the CYC Breadth-Mathematics requirement.
  2. A score of 91 or above on the ACCUPLACER Elementary Algebra exam.
  3. A score of 3 on any Advanced Placement (AP) mathematics exam.
  4. A score of 4 or higher on an approved International Baccalaureate (IB) mathematics exam.
  5. A score of 50 or higher on a College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) mathematics exam.
  6. A passing score on the mathematics section of the College Level Academic Skills Test taken prior to July, 2009.
  7. A passing score on the FTCE General Knowledge Exam mathematics section or a score of 91 or higher on the mathematics portion of the Florida College-Level  Entry Placement Test.
  8. A 2.5 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) in traditional postsecondary-level course work identified by the Florida State Board of Education and Florida Board of Governors as meeting the requirement to demonstrate college-level skills in mathematics. (Contact the Office of the Registrar for details.)
  9. Six-semester credit hour equivalents of mathematics course work completed at another accredited college or university, and deemed eligible toward transfer credit.  (Contact the Office of the Registrar for details.)

Waivers for Basic Mathematics Proficiency and English Language Proficiency

Students may apply for a waiver if they do not satisfy the basic requirement(s) of Mathematics Proficiency and/or English Language Proficiency. Applications for waivers [not related to a documented specific learning disability] will be reviewed by the Waiver Committee. This committee will include the Provost, a faculty member in Mathematics, a faculty member in English, a third member of faculty outside of Mathematics and English, and an institutional test administrator. Petitions for waivers will be considered only after students have been provided test accommodations and other administrative adjustments to permit accurate measurement of the student’s proficiency in the subject area measured by the exam. The Committee reviewing the request shall review the student’s academic records and such other information as appropriate.

Any student with a documented specific learning disability (SLD), such that the student cannot demonstrate successful mastery of basic Mathematics Proficiency and/or basic English Language Proficiency, may apply for a waiver through the Office of the Provost.