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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 2. BOARD OF REGENTS AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM · Part 2. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

20-3-68. Instruction in history and constitutions of the State of Georgia and the United States.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. All colleges and universities sustained or in any manner supported by public funds shall give instruction in the history of the United States and the history of Georgia and in the essentials of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia; and no undergraduate student in any college or university shall receive a certificate of graduation or a degree without successfully completing course work or previously passing a satisfactory examination on the same.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 32-171, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1140, § 1.

Law reviews

For article, “The Enduring Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law,” see 74 Emory L. Rev. 48 (2025).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t20-ch3-18-(v17a)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V17A, 2025 edition, pages 88 to 89; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 4560a0cef806.