Major Maps and Milestones
To learn more about the requirements for a major of interest, visit the Academic Program Guide.
Degree requirements are located in the “Program Description” link. Each major has developed an academic map that provides students with a Sample Schedule to illustrate one of the many ways to satisfy all requirements in four years.
More important are the Milestones identified for each major. Milestones can be courses, specific grades in courses, and/or GPAs that must be achieved by specified points within your college career.
- Failure to achieve a Milestone for a given Map Term identifies you as off-course for your major, places a hold on your registration, and requires you to meet with an advisor.
- Failure to get back on course the next semester will result in a hold on your registration that will require you to change your major.
- Additionally, incomplete milestones would prevent you from changing into a desired major.
To see a Sample Schedule and the Milestones, select “Academic Map” for the majors of interest at the Academic Program Guide link provided above.
CoreFSU and University-Wide Graduation Requirements
CoreFSU is a collection of courses and experiences curated by the student and their advisor that stimulates analyzing, reasoning, communicating, and engaging skills. It is a cohesive model that helps students make sense of their collegiate career by reinforcing the relationship between classes, experiences, and learning.
In CoreFSU, students explore important issues in a variety of fields of study. They learn how different disciplines form questions and how they go about answering them. As students move through CoreFSU, they learn new ways of analyzing, reasoning, communicating, and engaging with the world.
Typically, CoreFSU General Education courses are completed before students are certified into their major. Students should work closely with their academic advisor to ensure they are completing their liberal studies as needed for their major.
CoreFSU University-Wide Graduation Requirements may be built into course requirements for the major.
For more information about CoreFSU requirements, as well as graduation requirements, please visit https://core.fsu.edu/structure.
To keep track of CoreFSU requirements as you complete them, students can use the CoreFSU Advising Sheet found within either the It’s All Academic book they received during New Nole Orientation.
It’s All Academic (IAA)
It’s All Academic is the guidebook students received during New Nole Orientation. The guidebook has important information about academic policies, CoreFSU courses, university-wide requirements, technology tips, campus resources, and so much more!
Academic Requirements Reports
Your Academic Requirements Report in Student Central is an online unofficial degree audit that will allow you to see how the courses you have taken meet various degree requirements. The report also indicates most of the requirements you have remaining to complete, including requirements for Liberal Studies, your major/college as well as your Mapping Milestones. A full-version of the Academic Requirements Report is available in Student Central under My Academics – Advising Tools. Requirements within the report will display a status of either Satisfied or Not Satisfied to indicate if a requirement has been met. Here is an example of how a standard requirement will appear on the report:
A status of Satisfied means you have taken or enrolled in the courses needed to fulfill that requirement. Clicking the green arrow icon will expand the information to show you which courses you have enrolled in or have completed that are meeting the requirement.
A status of Not Satisfied means that the requirement has not yet been met.
The report will count any classes you are enrolled in for a current or future semester. Dropping or not completing classes with the minimum grade required may cause the status of a requirement to change from Satisfied to Not Satisfied. The report will not recognize any courses planned for a future semester.
It is important to note that all of your accelerated credit or dual enrollment credit may not be received and/or posted at the time you attend orientation. The status of some requirements may change after all incoming credit has been posted.
The Academic Requirements Report is not an official graduation check. At the time you reach 90 credit hours, you will need to request an official academic progress check from the Registrar’s Office and the college of your major.