FSU study guides, course by course
Florida's senior flagship pairs a residential campus culture with serious research-university expectations: the math department runs high-stakes exam sequences, the computer science program stays in C++ from the first course onward, and the limited-access College of Business turns intro course grades into admission currency. Support exists — tutoring centers, recorded lectures — but the core courses assume you manage your own pace.
FSU uses Florida's Statewide Course Numbering System: a three-letter prefix plus four digits (COP 3014, MAC 2311) shared across the state's public institutions, so the same code means the same course statewide. An L suffix is a standalone lab (CHM 1045L); a C suffix (PHY 2048C) means lecture and lab are combined.
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COP 3014 — Programming I
COP 3014 is FSU's first programming course for majors, taught in C++ — flow of control, functions, arrays, strings, structs, and program design with good style. It starts the C++ thread that runs through the entire FSU computer science core, so the habits formed here follow you for years.
COP 3330 — Data Structures, Algorithms, and Generic Programming I
COP 3330 is FSU's object-oriented programming course in C++ — classes, constructors, inheritance, polymorphism, and a first pass at container classes and data structures. It sits between Programming I and COP 4530, and it's where FSU CS projects first get big enough to require real design.
COP 4530 — Data Structures, Algorithms, and Generic Programming II
COP 4530 is FSU's core data structures course — lists, stacks, queues, trees, hashing, and graphs, implemented generically in C++ with templates, plus the complexity analysis to compare them. It's a gateway to the upper-division CS curriculum and the course FSU CS students reference when they talk about the major getting real.
Mathematics
MAC 1105 — College Algebra
MAC 1105 is FSU's college algebra course — functions, polynomials, rationals, exponentials, and logarithms — satisfying quantitative core credit and feeding the precalculus and statistics pathways. It's one of the highest-enrollment courses on campus, taken mostly by first-year students.
MAC 2311 — Calculus with Analytic Geometry I
MAC 2311 is FSU's Calculus I — limits, derivatives and their applications, and the start of integration — required for mathematics, the sciences, and students headed to the joint FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. It's a high-stakes course where exam performance decides nearly everything.
MAC 2312 — Calculus with Analytic Geometry II
MAC 2312 continues FSU's calculus sequence — integration techniques, applications, and the sequences-and-series block that closes the course. It's required for math, physics, and engineering-bound students, and it carries the sequence's heaviest reputation.
Statistics
STA 2122 — Introduction to Applied Statistics
STA 2122 is FSU's applied statistics course for natural and social science majors — distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, regression, and chi-square methods. It goes further than a typical intro stats course, covering the analyses students actually meet in research-methods courses and lab work.
STA 2023 — Fundamental Business Statistics
STA 2023 at FSU is the statistics course for business students — data description, probability, sampling distributions, and single-sample inference, framed around business decision-making. It's part of the pre-business core, which means its grade feeds the limited-access College of Business admission calculation.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
CHM 1045 — General Chemistry I
CHM 1045 (with the CHM 1045L lab) is FSU's first general chemistry course — measurement, stoichiometry, atomic structure, periodicity, bonding, and gases — required for chemistry, biology, pre-health, and engineering-bound students. It's a packed-lecture, exam-driven course that sets the tone for the science sequence.
CHM 1046 — General Chemistry II
CHM 1046 (with CHM 1046L) completes FSU's general chemistry sequence — intermolecular forces, kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. It gates organic chemistry and is a standing requirement on pre-health and science degree maps.
Biological Science
BSC 2010 — Biological Science I
BSC 2010 (with the BSC 2010L lab) is FSU's first majors biology course — biological chemistry, cell structure, metabolism, and molecular genetics. It opens the sequence for biology majors and FSU's substantial pre-health population, and its exams calibrate what science-course studying means here.
BSC 2011 — Biological Science II
BSC 2011 (with BSC 2011L) is the second half of FSU's intro biology sequence, moving from molecules to whole systems — evolution, biodiversity, physiology of plants and animals, and ecology. It pairs with BSC 2010 on biology and pre-health degree maps.
Physics
PHY 2048 — General Physics A
PHY 2048 (commonly taken as PHY 2048C, which folds in the lab) is FSU's calculus-based mechanics course — kinematics, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, rotation, and oscillations — required for physics, chemistry, and students headed to the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. It's the first course in the calculus-based sequence and a famous early checkpoint.
PHY 2049 — General Physics B
PHY 2049 (usually as PHY 2049C with the lab folded in) is the second semester of FSU's calculus-based sequence — electricity and magnetism, circuits, and optics. It's required for the same physics, chemistry, and engineering-bound population as PHY 2048, and most students rate it the harder of the pair.
PHY 2053 — College Physics A
PHY 2053 (typically PHY 2053C with integrated lab) is FSU's algebra-based physics — mechanics, energy, and related topics without calculus — serving pre-health, biology, and other science majors whose programs don't require the calculus-based sequence. It's a standard MCAT-foundation course for FSU's pre-med population.
Economics
ECO 2013 — Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 2013 introduces macroeconomics — national income measurement, inflation, unemployment, and fiscal and monetary policy — and sits in FSU's pre-business core, where its grade contributes to limited-access College of Business admission. It also serves social science requirements for a wide range of majors.
ECO 2023 — Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 2023 covers microeconomics — supply and demand, elasticity, consumer choice, production costs, and market structures — and pairs with ECO 2013 in FSU's pre-business core. The same limited-access business admission math applies, which keeps attendance honest in a course many students underestimate.
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