PHI BETA KAPPA UNDERGRADUATE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

SPREAD EVALUATION

In addition to the GPA and UF hours minima, students need a minimum of 34 hours of “liberal” coursework outside the student’s major discipline; this excludes courses intended “prinicipally to develop skill or vocational technique.” (See below)

1. Major disciplines:

H = Humanities SS = Social Sciences BS = Biological Sciences

PS = Physical Sciences L = Foreign Languages M = Math, Stat and Computer Science

2. EXCLUDED from spread are:

• all 1000-level math courses
• basic English comp classes (1101,1102,1145, other ENC classes) and Creative Writing.
• minimum foreign language (10 hours or equivalent) [Part 8 on the audit sheet: CLAS req]
  Note: In general, 2000-level courses, or basic courses in a second language, will count, and will appear as a separate section 9. AP credit equivalents are at the 2000 (intermediate) level, and may be split between sections 8 and 9, but should be considered as part of the minimum.
• specific courses required by the major (e.g., STA for psych)

NOTE: Zoology, Botany and Microbiology require so much math, chem and Physics that we allow spread for chem or physics past 20xx; and math beyond MAC 2312.

• nongraded courses (S/U) or those with grades below “C”
• courses in other colleges (e.g., education, business) that are not part of GenEd

3. INCLUDED in spread are:

• all other courses outside the major discipline, whether or not they satisfy some requirement (e.g., gen ed, basic distribution, or electives)
• courses transferred from some other institution

4. Limits in computing spread:

• maximum of 14 hours in any one area (e.g., SS)
• minimum of 16 hours of total must be from UF

5. FIGURING SPREAD

Begin by eliminating your major discipline from the spread count (e.g., for psych majors, we eliminate social sciences; for chem majors, physical sciences; for English or History majors, the humanities). For the other areas, indicate the total (up to 14 max) hours of spread in each of the remaining categories, excluding courses above.

Note that some within-major courses are listed in other disciplines. Some common example of this are:

PSB, CBH and EXP are all Psychology classes, but some courses fall under biol. science.

Anthro (ANT) has a required course that also appears under BS

Religion has courses that fall into social sciences.

Geography has a course in the physical sciences

Students majoring in these departments should not have these courses count toward spread; but allow these courses for majors in other areas (e.g., a sociology student taking a psychobiology (PSB) course gets bioscience spread).

<>Courses with IDS and IDH prefixes are counted to spread according to content.  Double majors and IDS majors should be counted as belonging to one major area, as seems most appropriate for their coursework. In ambiguous cases, use the area that maximizes spread.

NOTE: some MAC, STA & CHM have been renumbered from 3000 to 2000 level.

Code Major Area Required courses outside area

APY Anthropology SS STA 2122 or STA 2023

AST Asian Studies H none

ATY Astronomy PS CHI or JPN 2201-02

BTY Botany BS CHM 204x; PHY 200x; MAC 2311

CY Chemistry PS MAC 331x; MAP 2302

CS Classics H 15 hr LAT/GRE for lang focus

CSD Communic. Sci & Disor SS STA 2122; PSB 3004; one EAB class

CSC Computer & Info Sciences M PHY 204x

CJ Criminal Justice SS STA 2122

EAL East Asian Lang/Lit L none?

ECO Economics SS one MAC; STA 2023

EH English H none

FH French L none

GPY Geography SS STA 2122 or 2023; GLY 2010 for BS

GY Geology PS MAC 2311, 2312 for BS

GN German L none

HY History                                   H none (EUH in HUM)

IDS Interdisciplinary ** [check transcipt]

JS Jewish Studies H HBR 2201-2

LIN Linguistics H or SS none

MS Mathematics M none

MCY Micriobiology/Cell Sci BS CHM 204x; PHY 20xx; MAC 231x

PPY Philosophy H none

PS Physics PS MAC 231x; MAP 2302

PCL Political Science SS STA 2122 or 2023

PRT Portuguese L none

PSY Psychology SS STA 2023, 3024

RN Religion H none

RSN Russian L none

SY Sociology SS STA 2122

SH Spanish L none

STA Statistics M none

ZY Zoology BS CHM through organic; PHY 20xx;

MAC 2311 & (2312 or STA 2023)

If the bottom line is 34 hours or greater, with 16 or more at UF, then the student is to be recommended (R) to the committee for nomination. If spread is about one course shy of the minimum (30-33 hours), but there are exceptional achievements or diversity in the record (e.g., advanced independent work, double major across discipline, etc.), the committee can "present" (P) the student to the chapter for consideration. A high GPA alone won't suffice, though.

In a typical semester, roughly half of the students who meet the minimal GPA requirements also have the 34+ hours of spread; of the rest, we usually consider about 50 students for presenting to the chapter, of which maybe 10-20 move forward.