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.

The course submission must reflect the following information:

Diversity courses facilitate students’ development as culturally literate members of society.

• The course must contain some form of substantial assignment which accounts for at least 25% of the final grade and requires the student to demonstrate having achieved the course competencies.
• Students must be provided criteria for evaluating performance on the Diversity assignment(s), feedback (including instructor and/or teaching assistant response), and opportunities for revision.

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

Credit hours:

• Graduation Requirement courses can be less than 3 credit hours if desired.
  • State-Mandated Writing courses cannot be less than 3 credit hours.
  • Formative Experiences courses can be variable credit (0 or more hours).
• 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 Liberal Studies 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.
  • 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.

Yes. While there is no strictly required format for syllabi, our office has created the following document that you may use to facilitate the process of creating a CoreFSU syllabus: Syllabus Guide - Diversity

• Faculty may contact Kestrel Strickland with any questions about CoreFSU course design, as well as questions about using the Curricular Request Application (CRA) to submit curricular requests for CoreFSU approval.
• You may also browse the FAQ for commonly asked questions and answers.