Welcome to the SUNY College at Brockport Graduate Catalog, your comprehensive guide to academic life on our campus.

In these pages, you'll quickly discover that SUNY Brockport has a world of resources to offer you, including the excellent academic programs; extensive facilities; unique centers and institutes for research, learning, and services; and most importantly, the outstanding faculty and staff who are committed to ensuring that you receive a high quality graduate education.

Your SUNY Brockport graduate education will be the best possible advanced preparation you can have for a successful future. While at Brockport, you'll further develop your strengths in critical and creative thinking, research expertise, and theoretical and applied skills. Because Brockport is a diverse community dedicated to principles that foster integrity, civility and justice, you'll also learn to more deeply focus your attention on humane values that shape the world around you. And your Brockport experience will give you the advanced education you need for social and political participation and leadership. In short, what you learn at our College will be yours for a lifetime.

This catalog is a good place to start your graduate career at SUNY Brockport. May it prove fruitful.

The State University of New York at Brockport, a comprehensive institution assisted by public funds, serves approximately 9,000 students each year and offers more than 50 undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs in the liberal arts and professions. It is accredited by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and professional associations.

SUNY Brockport is the preeminent regional public university for the greater Rochester area. Focusing on academic excellence through teaching, research, and service to the broader community, the College continues to have significant impact on the area's educational, cultural, and economic development. The College offers a comprehensive educational experience in and out of the classroom and thereby prepares its graduates for a life of productive work, continuing personal enrichment, and useful citizenship in an increasingly interdependent world. The research, scholarship, and creative activities of the faculty, staff, and students advance knowledge, serve the public, and are an integral part of the educational mission of the College.
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SUNY Brockport offers programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and the professions at the baccalaureate, master's, and post-master's levels. Close relationships between the liberal arts disciplines and professional studies stimulate all students to develop strengths in critical and creative thinking, communication, applied skills, and in understanding global interdependence and cultural diversity. A balanced combination of theoretical and practical studies in each academic program prepares graduates for the workplace, advanced education in a profession, informed citizenship, and community leadership.

SUNY Brockport attracts well-motivated students and provides a campus environment conducive to learning and responsive to individual student needs. Each aspect of campus life is considered an integral part of the educational process.

SUNY Brockport's students, varying widely in age, background, and interests, represent the rich diversity of the citizens of New York, other states, and other countries. Curricular and co-curricular activities prepare students to live and work in an increasingly global society. Many foreign study opportunities and special programs add an international focus to education at Brockport, reflecting the greater Rochester area's worldwide economic and cultural connections.

SUNY Brockport's structure and curriculum provide flexible, high-quality postsecondary education. Program offerings in downtown Rochester and in other area locations, the use of interactive technology to provide distance learning, and academic programs in non-traditional formats, such as a weekend college and a time-shortened degree, respond to changing student needs. The supervised field-based placements and service-learning experiences of SUNY Brockport's students are vital aspects of their education and serve to enrich the greater Rochester area.