The General Education Oversight Committee (GEOC) is a subcommittee of the University Senate's Curricula & Courses Standing Committee.

The purpose of general education is to ensure that all University of Connecticut undergraduate students become articulate and acquire intellectual breadth and versatility, critical judgment, moral sensitivity, awareness of their era and society, consciousness of the diversity of human culture and experience, and a working understanding of the processes by which they can continue to acquire and use knowledge.

THE GEOC MANDATE