Diversity

1. Analyze some aspect of human experience within a culture, focusing on at least one source of diversity (e.g., age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class, or other).
2. Explore one’s own cultural norms or values in relation to those of a different cultural group.

CoreFSU Diversity courses facilitate students’ development as culturally literate members of society. The course objectives, course materials, activities, topics, and grading criteria should reflect how students will achieve this outcome.

When preparing the course proposal in Coursedog, note that:

• The proposal must contain a full description of a substantial assignment which accounts for at least 25% of students' final grade, as well as a grading rubric or criteria for the assessments.
• The proposal must indicate how students will be provided criteria for evaluating their feedback (including instructor and/or teaching assistant response), and opportunities for revision on the Diversity assignment(s).
  • The objective-assessment table field in Coursedog should illustrate how students will be assessed on their achievement of the Diversity (and other requested or approved CoreFSU area) student learning objectives.

Credit hours:

• Graduation Requirement courses can be less than 3 credit hours if desired.
  • Exceptions:
    • State-Mandated Writing courses cannot be less than 3 credit hours.
    • If the course also carries a General Education designation, these courses should not be less than 3 credit hours. (This does not include 1-credit labs.)
• Variable credit hour courses should have a clear justification (ex: internship, seminar with rotating topics).

Note: Only college-level courses (1000 or higher) are approved for the CoreFSU curriculum.

There are two components of required syllabus language:

1. Statements approved by the Faculty Senate, and
2. Statements for each CoreFSU designation the course is certified for

Faculty Senate required syllabus language:

All syllabi are required to include the syllabus language statements approved by the FSU Faculty Senate, available at https://facsenate.fsu.edu/Curriculum-Resources/syllabus-language.

CoreFSU required syllabus language:

The following statement can either be 1) adapted specifically to the course content, or 2) pasted verbatim into the syllabus. In either case, the meaning of the language should be clearly communicated to students.

This course has been approved to meet FSU’s CoreFSU Diversity requirement and prompts your development as a culturally literate member of society.

In order to fulfill FSU’s Diversity requirement, the student must earn a “C–” or higher in the course.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze some aspect of human experience within a culture, focusing on at least one source of diversity (e.g., age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class, or other).
2. Explore one’s own cultural norms or values in relation to those of a different cultural group.

• Diversity can be combined with any General Education designation.
• Diversity can be combined with any of the University Wide Graduation Requirements except Formative Experience.
  • If you choose to add a writing designation to your course proposal, note that a course can only fulfill one type of Writing requirement.
    • A course may be E-Series/State-Mandated Writing “W” or Upper-Division Writing.

• Faculty may contact UGS-CoreFSU@fsu.edu with any questions about CoreFSU course design, as well as questions about using Coursedog to submit proposals for CoreFSU approval.
• You may also browse the FAQ for commonly asked questions and answers.