DCC 100 Educational Mentor Tutorial (A). Helps prepare students for a successful college experience. Mentors act as advisors and assist with academic decision­making and adjustment to college. Focuses on (a) general academic advisement, (b) orientation to college with emphasis on formal and informal learning opportunities, (c) investigation of each student's learning potential and process, and (d) writing skills development. 2 Cr. Fall.

DCC 210 Human Heritage and Experience I (A). Provides students with exposure to and interaction with other cultures and perspectives as a self-defining experience. Allows students to investigate human thought and action by studying written works and other forms of expression. Is based on the premise that learning how others have lived and live helps us realize our shared heritage, and to appreciate that we are accountable for our actions. Learning about other cultures helps students learn about themselves. Through discussions and experiences, provides students with an opportunity to develop a sense of purpose and meaning. In examining global issues and human values, encourages students to celebrate diversity while at the same time appreciating the uniqueness of each of us. 3 Cr. Fall.

DCC 310 Human Heritage and Experience II (A). Prerequisite: Human Heritage and Experience I or instructor's permission. Allows students to explore the questions, Who am I, What is the nature of this reality in which I participate, and How can I change it for the better? Studies in greater depth global issues and the inter-relationship of thought and action. Allows students to further develop and utilize critical and creative thinking skills in addressing issues that impact the human condition. Through a collaborative and interactive learning environment, allows students to realize the reciprocal relationship between individual and collective consciousness. 4 Cr. Spring.

DCC 215 Society and Culture I (A). Introduces students to various modes of social inquiry. Explores the global impact and importance of social events and analyzes these events from an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective. Allows students to learn how a person's actions and interactions with others influence and are influenced by individuals, societies and cultures. 3 Cr. Fall.

DCC 315 Society and Culture II (A). Prerequisite: Society and Culture I or instructor's permission. Instills a greater understanding of individual and social behavior. Requires students to apply various modes of social inquiry in analyzing and interpreting current social events. Provides these outcomes: knowledge of and an appreciation for the reciprocal relationship between individuals and societies. 4 Cr. Spring.

DCC 220 Aesthetic Experience I (A). Prerequisite: Second-year status or instructor's permission. Introduces a wide spectrum of art forms with the purpose of developing an understanding of, an appreciation for, and interest in human experiences expressed through arts. Distinguishes those genuine arts which truthfully portray the artist's vision of human life. Through interdisciplinary methodology, allows students to examine shared values and mutual influences between arts, global issues, and other disciplines. 3 Cr. Fall.

DCC 320 Aesthetic Experience II (A) Prerequisite: Aesthetic Experience I or instructor's permission. Studies aesthetics, artistic perspectives, and shared values of diverse cultures; examines the interrelationship between arts and technology. Through creative projects and a learner-focused interactive environment, allows students to refine their creative and critical faculties as they explore artistic avenues for meeting 21st century challenges. 4 Cr. Spring.

DCC 230 Scientific Exploration I (A). Prerequisite: Second-year status or instructor's permission. Introduces students to science and the scientific method, and what science can and can't do. Explores commonality and differences between the various scientific disciplines. Highlights global implications and impacts of science to everyday life. Presents science not as a specific discipline, but rather as a form of problem solving integrated with other life experiences. 3 Cr. Fall.

DCC 330 Scientific Exploration II (A). Prerequisite: Scientific Exploration I or instructor's permission. Provides a hands­on experience that emphasizes learning by doing and problem solving. Requires students to identify and explore fundamental scientific principles as individuals and/or in small groups. Includes seminars, field trips and laboratory experiences as integral to the course. Permits students to be involved in the design of experiments, including formulation of hypotheses and interpretation of results. Requires students who conduct a specific experiment to lead an interactive discussion with peers on the applications of their findings in the "real world." 4 Cr. Spring.

DCC 400 Technology, Civilization, and Humanity (A). Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor's permission. Under the instructor's guidance, allows students as individuals and in small groups to examine the evolution and application of technologies. Explores the impacts that human values have on technology, and how technological advances force humankind to evaluate and reconsider our value. Integrates all aspects of the Delta Experience as students gain an understanding and appreciation for the reciprocal impacts between science, civilization, and humankind. 3 Cr. Fall.

DCC 225 Integrative Learning Seminar I (A). Allows students in collaboration with their mentors and peers to identify current local and regional issues/problems of personal interest. Requires students to demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills, and propose solutions to selected problems/issues. Also requires students to complete the necessary steps in confirming the site at which they will complete the first integrative learning experience (ILE I). Requires students to formulate and finalize a contract for their ILE I experience, as part of the course requirements, and in consultation with their mentors. 2 Cr. Spring.

DCC 345 Integrative Learning Seminar II (A). Prerequisite: Integrative Learning Seminar I. Allows students in collaboration with their mentors and peers to identify current regional and national issues/problems of personal interest. Requires students to demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills, and propose solutions to selected problems/issues. Also requires students to complete the necessary steps in confirming the site at which they will complete the second integrative learning experience (ILE II). Requires students to formulate and finalize a contract for their ILE II experience, as part of the course requirements, and in consultation with their mentors. Allows students to begin the process of exploring possible sites for their international experience (ILE III). 2 Cr. Spring.

DCC 410 Integrative Learning Seminar III (A). Prerequisite: Integrative Learning Seminar II. Allows students in collaboration with their mentors and peers to identify current global issues/problems of personal interest. Requires students to demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills, and propose solutions to selected problems/issues. Requires students to formulate and finalize a contract for their ILE III experience, as part of the course requirements, and in consultation with their mentors. 2 Cr. Fall.

DCC 235 First Year Integrative Learning Experience: (local/regional) (A). Prerequisite: Integrative Learning Seminar I. Requires students to complete a volunteer or work experience in a local or regional setting where they are exposed to, and are able to learn about local or regional/cultural issues. Requires mentors to approve sites, and students to complete a minimum of 120 clock hours at the site. Students may choose the three- to four-week Delta College alternative. Requires students to complete pre­determined contractual course assignments and responsibilities on site, and to send written assignments to mentors by postal or electronic mail. 3 Cr. Summer.

DCC 355 Second Year Integrative Learning Experience: (regional/national) (A). Prerequisite: Integrative Learning Seminar II and the First-year Integrative Learning Experience. Requires students to complete a volunteer or work experience in a regional or national setting where they are exposed to, and are able to learn about regional or national social/cultural issues. Requires mentors to approve sites, and students to complete a minimum of 120 clock hours at the site. Students may choose the three- to four-week Delta College alternative. Requires students to complete pre­determined contractual course assignments and responsibilities on site, and to send written assignments to mentors by postal or electronic mail. 3 Cr. Summer.

DCC 420 Third Year Integrative Learning Experience: (international) (A). Prerequisite: Integrative Learning Seminar III and the Second-year Integrative Learning Experience. Requires students to complete a volunteer, work, or study experience in a foreign country where they are exposed to, and are able to learn about the social/cultural issues of the country they are in. Requires mentors to approve sites, and students to complete a minimum of 600 clock hours at the site if the student has chosen a volunteer or work experience. Requires students who choose the study experience to complete the equivalent of 15 credits of course work at SUNY Brockport/Delta College. Requires students to complete pre­determined contractual course assignments and responsibilities on site, and to send written assignments to mentors by postal or electronic mail. Upon completion of the experience, requires students to return to campus to complete a seminar with their mentors. 15 Cr. Spring.

Administrator: P. Michael Fox, Ph.D.

The College Honors Program provides students with enhanced, challenging, disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning experiences. The goals of the program are to make scholarly endeavor as stimulating and rewarding as possible, to encourage independent creative work by academically superior undergraduate students, and to help these students develop a supportive intellectual peer group. The program represents an alternate route through General Education at SUNY Brockport and leaves the basic baccalaureate degree requirements, other than for General Education, unaffected.

The College Honors Program culminates in writing a Senior Honors Thesis. The thesis is usually developed within the major field of study and is supervised by a faculty member who acts as a mentor during the research project. It is also possible for students to do a thesis outside the major field. The Senior Honors Thesis is the "heart" of the program in that it gives students the chance to pursue a significant problem or project in great depth, and with the guidance of an expert mentor. The results of each student's thesis project are presented at Scholars Day or another appropriate, alternate public forum.

Honors Courses

Honors courses are specially designated courses or sections of courses usually built around limited class sizes, seminar groups, individualized studies, and special projects and activities. Honors courses place a high value on student contributions and encourage a more intimate and intensive educational experience. In general, honors courses are open only to students who have been admitted to the Honors Program, but other students with special qualifications may at times be admitted to individual courses with the permission of the Honors Program Office.

Honors Faculty

The College Honors Program draws its faculty from a group of distinguished scholars and stimulating teachers who are committed to academic excellence and to fostering intellectual growth both in honors classes and through informal discussions outside the classroom.

Admission to Honors

Students may enter the College Honors Program as freshmen or the Upper-division College Honors Program as juniors. Entering freshmen will have high school averages of 88 or above and SAT total scores of 1100 or higher. Transfer students entering with a 3.25 or higher cumulative GPA from their previous colleges and who are transferring in no more than 65 credits and SUNY Brockport students entering the junior year with a 3.25 cumulative GPA may be admitted to the Upper-division College Honors Program. Application forms for the Honors Program can be obtained from the Honors Program Office.

Several scholarships are available for students entering the Honors Program as freshmen. These are awarded on the basis of academic qualifications and credited toward tuition. Students wishing to participate in the selection process for these awards must respond to the request for information sent out by the Student Awards Committee.

College Honors Program Requirements

Students entering the program as freshmen will be designated College Honors Scholars upon completion of the College Honors Program and the other baccalaureate degree requirements. The requirements of the College Honors Program are:

1. Students must maintain a 3.25 or higher cumulative GPA and grades of at least "B" in all honors courses.

2. Students will be required to complete HON 112 (which meets composition, humanities, comparative perspectives, and perspectives on women requirements) and four Honors Seminars (substituted for four of the eight Breadth Component courses required by the General Education Program. The usual General Education requirements for Quantitative Skills and a computer literacy course remain in effect.

3. In the junior and senior years, students will complete an Honors contemporary issues course, the Honors Junior Colloquium, and an Honors Thesis.

4. The Honors Thesis must be approved upon completion by the thesis sponsor and the Honors Program Office. The thesis must be presented at Scholars Day or an appropriate alternate public forum.
   

Transfer Students and SUNY Brockport students who enter the Upper-division College Honors Program as juniors will receive Upper-division College Honors if they complete the following requirements:

1. Students must maintain a 3.25 or higher cumulative GPA at SUNY Brockport and earn grades of at least "B" in all Honors courses.

2. Students must complete an Honors contemporary issues course, the Honors Junior Colloquium, and an Honors Thesis.

3. The Honors Thesis must be approved upon completion by the thesis sponsor and the Honors Program Office. The thesis must be presented at Scholars Day or an appropriate alternate public forum.

4. Students must satisfy all other requirements of the General Education Program which remain in effect (as appropriate, based on the student's transferred courses).
   

Continuing in the College Honors Program

Students must earn at least a "B" grade in all Honors courses and maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.25. Students will not be allowed to continue in the College Honors Program for more than one semester with less than a 3.25 cumulative GPA. College Honors Program students are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the program by attending Honors Program meetings and extracurricular intellectual events sponsored by the College Honors Program, and to consult with the College Honors Program Office for regular advisement. If students leave the College Honors Program, their Honors courses will meet requirements of the General Education Program as the courses' General Education suffix codes indicate.

Departmental Honors and Delta College Honors

The SUNY Brockport Faculty Senate has given permission for the individual departments and Delta College to develop their own criteria for Honors designations. Students interested in Departmental Honors or Delta College Honors should check with these areas for the current status of Honors. Where possible, students would be allowed to participate in both the College Honors Program and Departmental or Delta College Honors.

HON 112 Composition and Literature, with Academic Planning Seminar Component (A,H,C,W). This course or its equivalent is required of all entering students. Fulfills the General Education requirements of a course in composition and an academic planning seminar; as a Breadth Component course, fulfills one-half of the requirement of Humanities courses. Also offers students an introduction to studies in Honors. 4 Cr. Fall.

Honors Seminars, Breadth Component courses, and the Honors Contemporary Issues course offered in the College Honors Program are registered and scheduled on a semesterly basis and students are advised to take these courses as they are offered. Courses are usually seminars or Breadth Component courses especially chosen from a variety of courses offered at the College. These are designated with the HON prefix. Questions on these Honors courses can be directed to the College Honors Program Office.

HON 395 Junior Colloquium (A). Required in the second semester of the junior year to prepare students to conduct research in the Honors Thesis Project by choosing a topic, selecting an advisor, and drafting a thesis proposal. 1 Cr. Spring.

HON 400 Honors Thesis Project. Introduces students to the ideals and standards of excellence in scholarship and other creative endeavors by providing opportunities to engage in such activities with faculty members. Provides an individual investigation that extends current understanding of a problem and may summarize existing knowledge, generate new knowledge, or create new works. 3 Cr. Fall.

The Contractual Liberal Arts Major is an option that permits the student to design an individualized academic major drawn from the total academic offerings of SUNY Brockport. This option is intended to accommodate the interests of students whose academic goals would not be met by an existing academic major, a double major, or a major-minor combination, nor by an existing academic major plus a carefully planned sequence of electives. The CLAM must be related to an existing disciplinary major.

The CLAM option is open to all students in good academic standing at SUNY Brockport. Students wishing to exercise this option should seek appropriate faculty advisement. Once the program proposed by the student and faculty advisors has been approved by both the CLAM committee and the dean of the appropriate school or the Delta College director, it becomes a contract between the student and SUNY Brockport. Revision may be accomplished through the same procedure used in seeking initial approval.

The title of the CLAM, which must be distinct from that of any established major, is the title that will identify the student's major on the student's final transcript.

For more information contact the Division of Adult and Continuing Education, 395-ACE-1 (2231) or 1-800-521-0092.

Athletic Training Concentration

Bilingual-Multicultural Concentration

Coaching Athletics Concentration

Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)

Engineering-Liberal Arts Five-year Program (3 + 2 Program)

This is a two-degree program designed for students who wish to combine a liberal arts and science education with one in engineering. In the first three years of the program, students complete the liberal arts component and a science or mathematics major at SUNY Brockport. The engineering component may then be completed in two years at SUNY Binghamton , SUNY Buffalo, Case Western Reserve University, Clarkson University, or Syracuse University. Sudents are awarded a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree from Brockport when they have successfully completed 120 credits in the program. They are awarded a Bachelor of Science in engineering degree from one of the participating engineering schools upon completion of the engineering curriculum. Students may choose a major in chemistry, computer science, mathematics or physics at Brockport. At the end of the junior year, upon satisfactory completion of all specified requirements and at the recommendation of the College, students transfer to one of the engineering schools. Admission to an engineering school is competitive.

Students currently enrolled at SUNY Brockport who are interested in the five-year program may obtain information from the Department of Chemistry and Physics. Prospective students should contact the Director of Admissions, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY. 14420-2915 (716) 395-2751.

Exercise Physiology/Adult Fitness Concentration

Information on the following four programs is available through the Office of Career Services, (716)395-2468.

The Albany Semester Program is a full-semester experience allowing interns to work in one of the capital's government offices as student project directors or administrative assistants. Students earn 16 credits in political science through internship and seminar courses, and receive a stipend for the semester. The program is open to juniors and seniors from all academic majors, and operates during the fall, spring, and summer. Deadlines are November 1 for the spring semester, April 1 for the summer session, and July 15 for the fall semester.

The Assembly Intern Program is a full-time, Albany-based program enabling students to learn the state legislative process through involvement with the New York State Assembly. During the spring semester, students work within the Assembly while researching data for legislation, analyzing proposed projects, and attending committee meetings and hearings. Students earn 15 credits in political science for internship and seminar course work, and receive a stipend. The program is open to juniors and seniors from all academic majors, and operates from January through May when the Assembly is in session. Applications are due November 1 for the following January session.

The NYS Senate Session Assistants Program provides students from New York state colleges and universities with full-time opportunities to work in Albany with state senators and participate on special committees. Policy issues such as agriculture, education, casino gambling and chemical wastes are researched, discussed and analyzed during each session. The program selects students with a strong orientation to public service who have demonstrated outstanding research and communication skills. Students earn 15 credits in political science, combining internship and seminar credit, and receive a stipend. The program is open to juniors and seniors from all academic majors, and operates from January through May when the Senate is in session. Applications are due October 25 for the following January.

The Brockport Career Exploration Course (BCEC) is a one-semester, three-credit elective course that encourages sophomores, juniors, and seniors to investigate a specific career area under the guidance of a faculty sponsor and the Office of Career Services. BCEC credit can be earned by working 125 hours in a human service, education or local/county government or business placement.

Departmental Internships are available through many individual academic departments for career exploration and confirmation in addition to the experiential programs listed. Options exist in the Departments of Anthropology, Business Administration, Communication, Computer Science, Criminal Justice, Health Science, Political Science, Recreation and Leisure Studies, and Physical Education and Sport. In some majors, field experience internships are mandatory as part of a certification process. Professional programs or majors in nursing, recreation therapy, social work and teacher education require a specified number of hours in actual preprofessional work. Students are encouraged to refer to specific major listings in this catalog for details on internship courses and their prerequisites.