Prerequisite requirements and recommended prior coursework for certification to the upper-division (52+ earned credit hours for native FSU students) or for admission to the major (Upper-Division Transfer/Florida AA transfer) are listed below.
- Items marked must complete, must earn, or required are required prerequisite coursework or other requirements.
- Items marked strongly recommended are not required for certification or admissions to the major but either will help prepare students for later coursework in the major or will streamline FSU graduation requirements.
Students applying to transfer with less than 60 earned hours or without an AA from a Florida public institution should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify prerequisite requirements based on prior credit hours earned and/or semesters of coursework attempted.
You may also visit the Academic Program Guide as linked for each major for a detailed breakdown of each program’s requirements.
African American Studies
Visit the Academic Program Guide.
Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
Asian Studies
Visit the Academic Program Guide.
Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Strongly recommend completing approved* foreign language through intermediate level.
* Approved languages for AS major as currently or intermittently taught at FSU are Chinese, Japanese, Arabic. Demonstrated competency or coursework in other Asian languages may be approved by request to the AS program director, Dr. Lee Metcalf.
Economics
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Limited Access Major – all requirements below in effect for admissions to Economics through Summer 2024.
Certification to Upper-Division
- Must earn minimum 2.5 All-Work-Attempted GPA
- Includes all college-level course work taken after earning the high school diploma, even if the grades are D or F. FSU does not recognize grade forgiveness policies in calculating cumulative GPAs. You may use the FSU GPA calculator to calculate your GPA.
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Must complete Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO x013) with a C grade or better
- Must complete Principles of Microeconomics (ECO x023) with a C grade or better
- Must complete College Algebra or Higher (MAC x105) with a C- grade or better
- Beginning Fall 2023: must complete an approved Calculus course (either MAC 2233 or 2311) to C grade or better to fulfill requirement
- Must complete a 2000-level Statistics course; C- minus grade or better
- Beginning Fall 2023: must complete an approved Statistics course (either STA 2023, 2122, or 4321) to C grade or better to fulfill requirement
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Must earn minimum 2.5 All-Work-Attempted GPA
- Includes all college-level course work taken after earning the high school diploma, even if the grades are D or F.
- FSU does not recognize grade forgiveness policies in calculating cumulative GPAs. You may use the FSU GPA calculator to calculate your GPA.
- Must complete Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO x013) with a C grade or better
- Must complete Principles of Microeconomics (ECO x023) with a C grade or better
- Must complete College Algebra or Higher (MAC x105) with a C- grade or better
- For admission to FSU beginning Fall 2023: must complete an approved Calculus course (either MAC 2233 or 2311) to C grade or better to fulfill requirement
- Strongly recommend completing 2000-level Statistics course prior to applying for admissions; C- minus grade or better)
- For admission to FSU beginning Fall 2023: must complete an approved Statistics course (either STA 2023, 2122, or 4321) to C grade or better to fulfill requirement
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
Environment and Society
Visit the Academic Program Guide.
Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Must complete either General Biology I and Lab (BSC x010 and BSC x010L) or General Chemistry I and Lab (CHM x045 and CHM x045L) for admissions.
- Must complete either Environmental Science (GEO x330) or Physical Geography (GEO x200C) for admissions.
Geography
Visit the Academic Program Guide.
Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Strongly recommend completing at least one Geography course prior to enrollment at FSU.
Interdisciplinary Social Science (ISS)
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Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Must complete 2 courses from approved departments (Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology, and Urban and Regional Planning).
- Strongly recommend those applying to the ISS online/distance learning program complete Oral Communications and Computer Competency prior to applying.
- Visit the FSU Liberal Studies course search page for information on which courses will complete these FSU graduation requirements.
International Affairs
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Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Strongly recommend completing foreign* language through intermediate level.
* International Affairs requires coursework or demonstrated competency through the intermediate level in a modern foreign language. Demonstrated competency for languages not taught at FSU can be approved with documentation after enrolling at FSU by request to the IA program director, Dr. Lee Metcalf. Ancient or classical languages do not satisfy the modern language requirement.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Strongly recommend completing approved* foreign language through intermediate level.
* Approved languages for LACS major as currently or intermittently taught at FSU are Spanish, Portuguese, French. Demonstrated competency or coursework in other Latin American and Caribbean languages may be approved by request to the LACS program director, Dr. Lee Metcalf.
Political Science
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Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Must complete American Government (POS x041) and 3 hours of additional Political Science coursework (course prefixes of POS, CPO, or INR) with grades of C minus or better.
Public Health
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The FSU Public Health major is a social science, policy-based major. It is not a STEM, pre-health, or pre-med major.
Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Strongly recommend completing a 2000-level Statistics course (C- grade or better) prior to admission.
Russian and Eastern European Studies
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Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Strongly recommend completing approved* foreign language through intermediate level.
* Approved languages for REES major as currently or intermittently taught at FSU are Russian, German, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian. Demonstrated competency or coursework in other East European languages may be approved by request to the REES program director, Dr. Lee Metcalf.
Sociology
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Certification to Upper-Division
- Must complete: Minimum 52 earned credit hours
- Must complete: English and Quantitative/Logical Thinking (math) requirements for General Education completed (not in progress)
- Must complete: Minimum half (18 hours) of General Education requirements completed (not in progress)
- Required: Mapping on track (map status 0) within the major
UDT/AA Admissions
- Strongly recommended: Complete Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Transfer students without an articulated Florida AA degree should contact the College’s Academic Mapping Coordinator to verify admission requirements.
- Must complete 2 sociology courses with C minus grades or better.