All students at the University of Florida must fulfill the university’s General Education Requirements. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must fulfill College-level requirements of CLAS; students in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences must fulfill the College-level requirements of CALS.
Students may earn the botany degree through either The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. A summary of the differences between the College-level requirements for the two programs are provided in the chart below.
These college-level differences, below, are the only differences between earning a botany degree through CLAS and CALS. The major-specific requirements are the same for both colleges.
Comparison of Botany Undergraduate Programs
| Agricultural and Life Sciences | Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| 120 credits required. | 120 credits required. |
| AEB 3103 (Principles of Food and Resource Economics -4 cr.) or ECO 2023 (Microeconomics- 3 cr.) Required. |
No such requirement |
| No foreign language required. | 10 semester hours of one foreign language. |
| No limit as to number of semester hrs. that can be taken outside the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and applied toward the degree. | Only 21 semester hrs. can be taken outside the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and applied toward the degree. |
6 semester hours of communications from the following courses:
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No such requirement |