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!
Stellic
The Track Progress tab in Stellic is an online unofficial degree audit that will allow you to see how the courses you have taken meet various degree requirements. The degree audit indicates most of the requirements you have remaining to complete, including requirements for CoreFSU as well as those for your major and college. There are two versions of your degree audit that you may use:
- The official version includes only those courses you have completed/registered for and majors or other programs that you have officially declared.
- The planned version includes courses planned for future terms as well as any programs you have unofficially declared in Stellic.
Here is an example of how a standard requirement will appear in the audit:
You may use the progress symbols to the left of the requirements to check the status. The most common progress symbols are:
- Green checkmark: indicates a requirement or course has been completed.
- Red box: indicates a requirement or course still needs to be completed. In some requirements, a number in the red box will indicate the number of credit hours or courses still remaining to complete the requirement.
- Yellow double checkmark: indicates a course that you are enrolled in for the current semester.
- Single yellow checkmark: indicates a course that is in your plan and will be satisfied once completed. In the official audit, only courses you are registered for will appear in yellow. In the planned audit, all courses you have planned for any future semesters will appear in yellow.
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 Stellic degree audit 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 college of your major.