Ethics

1. Evaluate various ethical positions.
2. Describe the ways in which historical, social, or cultural contexts shape ethical perspectives.

CoreFSU Ethics courses help students become ethically engaged citizens and logical thinkers. The course objectives, course materials, activities, 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 sample reading list with an accompanying description of how the topics and readings include substantive coverage of ethical theory.
• The proposal must contain a full description of the activities or assignments which require students to demonstrate achievement of the Ethics learning objectives, as well as a grading rubric or criteria for the assessments.
  • The objective-assessment table field in Coursedog should illustrate how students will be assessed on their achievement of the Ethics (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).

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 Ethics requirement and helps you become an ethically engaged citizen and a logical thinker.

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

By the end of this course, students will:

1. Evaluate various ethical positions.
2. Describe the ways in which historical, social, or cultural contexts shape ethical perspectives.

• Ethics can be combined with any General Education designation.
• Ethics can be combined with any CoreFSU designation 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 curricular requests for CoreFSU approval.
• You may also browse the FAQ for commonly asked questions and answers.