Designing a Social Sciences Course
CoreFSU Social Sciences courses help students become critical analysts of theories and evidence about social forces and social experience.
- Discuss the role of social factors in contemporary problems or personal experiences.
- Analyze claims about social phenomena.
The course proposal in Coursedog must reflect the following information:
- FSU Requirements: Social Sciences courses help students become critical analysts of theories and evidence about social forces and social experience. 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 Social Sciences student learning objectives.
- Board of Governors Requirements for Social Sciences Courses: Afford students an understanding of the basic social and behavioral science concepts and principles used in the analysis of behavior and past and present social, political, and economic issues.
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:
- Statements approved by the Faculty Senate, and
- 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 Social Sciences requirements and helps you become a critical analyst of theories and evidence about social forces and social experience.
By the end of this course, students will:
- Discuss the role of social factors in contemporary problems or personal experiences.
- Analyze claims about social phenomena.
- Social Sciences can be combined with any of the University Wide Graduation Requirements except Formative Experience and 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.
- If you choose to add a writing designation to your course proposal, note that a course can only fulfill one type of Writing requirement.