Humanities and Cultural Practice

1. Interpret intellectual or artistic works within a cultural context.
2. Use a cultural, artistic, or philosophical approach to analyze some aspect of human experience.

The course proposal in Coursedog must reflect the following information:

• FSU Requirements: Humanities and Cultural Practice courses help students become thoughtful patrons of and participants in cultural practices. The course objectives, course materials, activities, topics, and grading criteria should reflect how students will achieve this outcome.
  • The objective-assessment table field in Coursedog should illustrate how students will be assessed on their achievement of the student learning objectives.
  • Note: Courses in basic composition that do not contain a literature component, courses in oral communication, and introductory foreign language courses are skill courses and not pure humanities courses. Therefore, for purposes of meeting this standard, none of the above may be the one course designated to fulfill the humanities/fine arts requirement in this standard.
• Board of Governors Requirements for Humanities Courses: Afford students the ability to think critically through the mastering of subjects concerned with human culture, especially literature, history, art, music, and philosophy. Includes selections from the Western canon.

Credit hours:

• General Education 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: General Education courses must be offered at a level of 1000 or 2000. 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 Humanities and Cultural Practice requirements and helps you become a thoughtful patron of and participant in cultural practices.

By the end of this course, students will:

1. Interpret intellectual or artistic works within a cultural context.
2. Use a cultural, artistic, or philosophical approach to analyze some aspect of human experience.

• Humanities and Cultural Practice can be combined with any of the University Wide Graduation Requirements except for Formative Experience or Upper-Division Writing.
  • 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.
  • If you are considering a capstone experience for your course proposal, note that a course can carry either the Scholarship in Practice (SIP) or Formative Experience designation, but not both.

• Faculty may contact Kestrel Strickland with any questions about CoreFSU course design, as well as questions about using Coursedog submit course proposals for CoreFSU approval.
• You may also browse the FAQ for commonly asked questions and answers.