Scholarship in Practice

1. Apply relevant areas of scholarship to produce an original project.

CoreFSU Scholarship in Practice courses help students become critical thinkers, creative users of knowledge, and independent thinkers. Courses must engage students in the application of knowledge from a particular field of study and create a tangible product or outcome. The course objectives, course materials, activities, and grading criteria should reflect how students will achieve these outcomes.

These materials should illustrate how students will be assessed on their achievement of the Scholarship in Practice student learning objective.

When preparing the course proposal in Coursedog, note that:

• The proposal must contain a full description of the original project that engages students in the application of knowledge from a particular field of study and create a tangible product or outcome.
  • The objective-assessment table field in Coursedog should illustrate how students will be assessed on their achievement of the Scholarship in Practice (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 Scholarship in Practice requirement and helps you become a critical thinker, a creative user of knowledge, and an independent learner.

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

By the end of this course, students will:

1. Apply relevant areas of scholarship to produce an original project.

• Scholarship in Practice can be combined with any General Education designation.
• Scholarship in Practice 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.
  • Note that a course can carry either the Scholarship in Practice (SIP) or Formative Experience designation, but not both.

• 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.