Staff

Kestrel Strickland, Assistant Registrar

Angela McCoy, Coordinator of Curriculum

Procedures for Creating or Altering Curriculum

FSU's University Curriculum Committee (UCC) must review all additions, changes, or deletions to university curriculum. The UCC is a standing committee of the Faculty Senate, which works in conjunction with the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement.

Requests to change any course element, or to create a new course, must be submitted by department faculty through Coursedog. Course elements include: prefix, course number, title, credit hours, grade type, repeat rules, delivery method, prerequisites, co-requisites, and description.

To access Coursedog, visit https://app.coursedog.com and log on with your FSUID and password. For guidance on how to use Coursedog, please email the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement at Curriculum-Help@fsu.edu to request access to the Curriculum Hub Teams/Sharepoint platform containing current curriculum resources.

Curriculum Sweep and Purge

Every year during spring semester, a report is generated that captures the courses that haven't been taught in the last five years. Departments are notified by email if any of their courses appear on this "purge" report. Unless the department specifies otherwise, the course or courses are removed from the master curriculum file (MCF). Courses purged from the MCF are also removed from the appropriate edition of the Bulletin, the Statewide Course Numbering System (SCNS), and the Statewide Course Numbering Field Reviews.

The SCNS conducts periodic field reviews to correct statewide curriculum issues, which result in changes to course prefixes and/or numbers. If the field review affects courses at FSU, staff update the Course Catalog, the Bulletin, and notify departmental contacts. While changes entered in the Course Catalog take place immediately, edits to Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin content are published in accordance with those particular publication cycles.