Who we are and what we do:

On May 6, 2002 the University Senate approved the creation of the General Education Oversight Committee (GEOC) as a subcommittee of the University Senate Courses and Curricula Committee. GEOC is charged with setting the criteria for courses that may satisfy content area and competency requirements for General Education; setting the criteria for entrance and exit requirements for the competency areas; reviewing and approving all course proposals for meeting general education requirements; developing policy for delivering the General Education program; determining the resources necessary to deliver the new General Education Requirements; monitoring periodically courses that satisfy General Education Requirements to ensure that they continue to meet the criteria adopted by the Senate; and reviewing the University-wide General Education program to ensure that its goals are being met and recommending changes to the Senate Curricula and Course Committee when appropriate. 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.