JOSEPH'S COLLEGE 1ST. NEW YORK DIVISION OF I GENERAL STUDIES 1993 1995 CATALOGUE Brooklyn Campus LEF ,D 814 s663 )58 993-95 COLLEGE JOSEPH’S ST. New Division of General Studies York Brooklyn Campus and Brooklyn Campus Extension Sites 93 Brooklyn Campus Suffolk Campus 26S Clinton Avenue CATALOGIT ISS Roe Boulevard Brooklyn, New York 1120S Patchogue, New York 1177 (718) 399-0068 (Sl6) 447-32SO TABLE OF CONTENTS The College 3 Admissions and Finances 9 Academic Life 27 Curricular Offerings 38 Maps 90 Registers 92 Index 105 Notwithstanding anything contained in this catalogue, the College administration expressly reservesthe right, where it deems advisable, 1. to changeor modify its schedule oftuition and fees, and 2. to withdraw, cancel, reschedule or modify any course, program of study or degree, or any requirement in connection with any of the foregoing. NOTICE OF NONOISCRIMIIMATORY POLICY AS TO STUOENTS It isthe policyofSt. Joseph’sCollegenottodiscriminateon thebasisof race,color, religion,sex, nationalorethnicorigin,age, handicap,ormarital status in its educational programs, admissions policies, employment policies,financialaidorotherschooladministeredprograms.Thispolicyis implemented in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local statutes or regulations. 2 THE COLLEGE MISSION AND GOALS OF ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE The mission of St. Joseph’s College is to provide a strong academic and value-oriented education rooted in a liberal arts tradition that supports provisionforcareerpreparationandenhancement.TheCollegeaimsinthis waytoprepareeachstudentforalifecharacterizedbyintegrity,intellectual andspiritualvalues,social responsibility, andservice—a lifethat isworthy ofthe College’s motto. Essenon videri: “To be and not to seem.” Independent and coeducational, St. Joseph’s College provides afford- able private education that serves a diverse population of academically eligiblestudentswholivewithincommutingdistanceofeithertheBrooklyn orSuffolk Campus. St. Joseph’s College affirms the dignity, freedom, and inherent value of each person. This affirmation is realized through a student-centered environmentwherein thefaculty’s primarycommitment istoexcellence in teaching. In this open, supportive atmosphere, students are challenged to developtheirfull potentialand areencouragedtoacquireaspiritof inquiry and a joy in learning. To accomplish this mission, St. Joseph’s College has established the following goals: • to offer curricula that foster the knowledge and intellectual skills associated with the liberally educated person; • toencouragestudentstodevelop personal valuesystems, responsible self-direction, and committed participation in the local and global communities; • to help students develop as whole persons by providing individual attention, interactive teaching, and opportunities for active participa- tion in academic and extracurricular programs; • to prepare students for their careers by offering the necessary professional and pre-professional education; • toprovidefortheneedsofadiversified student populationwithvaried educational and professional experiences; • to foster an environment of openness to the exploration and under- standing of diverse ideas, traditions, and cultures; • tosupporteducationalprogramsandservicesthatwillcontributetothe vitality of the communities served by the Brooklyn and Suffolk Campuses. 3 HISTORY Chartered by the Regentsofthe University ofthe State of New York on February24, 1916, St. Joseph’sCollegeforWomen, as itwasthen known, held its first classes at 286Washington Avenue, located in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, Twoyears later, having outgrown its original facility, the College moved to the present site of the Main Campus at 245 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn. In recognition of its evident success, stability, and soundness of program, the Regents granted St. Joseph’s College an Absolute Charter in 1929. Reverend William T. Dillon, J.D., Professor of Philosophy, Dean oftheCollege,and laterits President,guided itsgrowth during the significant years that followed. The College was accredited in 1928 by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States AssociationofCollegesandSecondarySchools.Maintaininghighstandards ofacademic excellence, professional competence, and a notable spirit of communityservice,theCollegedrewincreasingnumbersofyoungwomen. HavingpioneeredinthestudyofChildDevelopment,St.Joseph’sopeneda laboratory pre-school in 1934. SisterVincentThereseTuohyassumedthepresidencyin 1956.Underher leadership, the long term development program for the College was concretized in the erection of two facilities. McEntegart Hall, a multi- functionalbuildinghousingthelibraryandclassrooms,wasopenedin1965; the Dillon Child Study Centerfollowed in 1968. Sister George Aquin O’Connor was elected President and assumed responsibilityon July 1, 1969. In 1970, a Charteramendmentchanged the nametoSt. Joseph’sCollege, NewYorkandenabledtheCollegetoadmit thefirstmenstudentstofullmatriculation.OnFebruary2, 1971 St.Joseph’s , College inaugurated an extension program in Suffolk County in the collegiate center formerly known as Brentwood College, and moved to develop a degree program in Brentwood oriented to the third and fourth years of college. This Upper Division baccalaureate program opened in September, 1972, and the Board of Regents of the State of New York authorized St. Joseph’s College to join C.W. Post Center, L.I.U., in a CoordinateCampusprogram,thefirstsuchpatternadoptedintheState. In 1976 on petition of the Trustees, this Suffolk County operation was authorized by the Regents to operateas a branch campus of St. Joseph’s College. In 1978St.Joseph’sCollegeexpanded itsoperationattheSuffolk Branch Campus to a full four-year program, and in 1979 moved to a new twenty-fiveacre lake-side campus in Patchogue. A continuing education program, which over many years had provided courses for adults on a non-matriculated basis, in the early 1970’s developedamoreclearlydefinedprogramfornon-traditionaland/orcareer oriented adults interested in earning a degree. In April 1974, the College registeredwiththeNewYorkStateEducation Departmentthe Bachelorof ScienceinGeneralStudies.Thisprogramandadditionalprogramsdesigned foradultprofessionalsareadmini.««teredbytheDivisionofGeneralStudies, with coursesoffered in Brooklyn, attheSuffolk BranchCampus, and atthe extension sites. 4 LOCATION St. Joseph’s College has two campuses: the Main Campus is located in the residential Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, and the Suffolk Branch Campus is located in Patchogue, Long Island. The Main Campus: St. Joseph’s College, as an urban college with a campus, offers easy access to all transit lines, to the Long Island Expressway,toall bridges in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens,aswell as totheVerrazano-NarrowsBridgetoStaten Island.Thisconvenientlocation bringsstudentsfromeverypartoftheGreaterNewYork MetropolitanArea totheCollegeeachday,wheretheyenjoythefreedomofcampus lifewhile profiting from the many cultural advantages of New York City. Within the space of one half hour, students leaving St. Joseph’s College may find themselves in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 42nd Street Library, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Broadway theatredistrict, Madison Square Garden, orShea Stadium. The College itself stands in the center of one of the nation’s most diversifiedacademiccommunities,consistingofsixcollegesanduniversities within a two-mile radius of each other. St. Joseph’s College offers its studentseasyaccesstotheothercollegesandsuchculturalfacilitiesasthe BrooklynAcademyofMusic,theBrooklyn PublicLibrary,andtheBrooklyn Museum. The Suffolk Campus of St. Joseph’s College is located in Patchogue at 155 Roe Boulevard. It is bounded on the north by Sunrise Highway. It is easilyaccessiblefromthesouthshorelocationsviaSouthernState,Sunrise Highway, (Exit52) and fromcentraland northern Long Island viaVeterans Highway, Patchogue-Holbrook Road, Nichols Road, or Route 112. (See page91.) In addition to the Brooklyn and Suffolk campuses, the College has extension sites located in Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Nassau, and Suffolk. These have been established to make a portion of students’ coursework available in convenient locations. More information on these can be obtained by consulting the schedule of courses prepared priorto each semester. FACILITIES BROOKLYN CAMPUS TheAdministrationBuilding—Sister Vincent ThereseHall Named in memory ofa late President ofthe College, theAdministration Building contains student lounges, classrooms, an auditorium, computer facilities, student government offices, the gymnasium, and of course, administrativeoffices. TheLittleTheatre, used bytheSpeech Department, is located on the second floor ofthe building. The chemistry and physics laboratories,theartstudio,seminarrooms,andanaudio-visualroomareon thethird floor. 5 “245Building" ThenumeralindicatestheaddressoftheoriginalCollegebuilding,which has traditionally been designated the “245” Building. The parlors, formal dining room, chapel,studentloungeand kitchen,and biologyinstructional andresearchlaboratoriesarehousedinthisfacility. Partsofthesecondand third floors areallotted forfaculty residence. Lorenzo Hall LorenzoHall,locatedat265ClintonAvenue,providesofficespaceforthe academic departments. Furnished with departmental libraries, the offices arefrequentlyusedfordepartmentconferencesand informaldiscussions. The psychology laboratory is located on the first floor of the Hall. The administrativeofficesofthe DivisionofGeneral Studiesaresituated inthis center. McEntegartHall McEntegart Hall is a fully air conditioned five-level structure. Four spacious reading areas with a readercapacityof 306, including individual studyunitsandshelfsoacefor200,000volumesonfourstacklevels,provide an excellentenvironmentforlearning. Inaddition, McEntegartHall houses the Archives, a curriculum library, a computer laboratory, a nursing laboratory, a chapel, eight classrooms, dining areas, a faculty study, and facultyandstudent lounges.Atpresentthelibrarycollection, includingthe holdings in Suffolk, consists of over 160,000 volumes, 5000 reels of microfilm, and morethan 900current magazine and newspapersubscrip- tions. Filmstrips, recordings,slides,videos, CD’s, and picturessupplement the book collection. Among its special services the library includes abstractsofpublicationsofthemajorfieldsofnatural andsocialsciences, computersubjectsearch,and amicroprintcollection,consistingofout-of- print books and journals. The library staff has also entered into special cooperative arrangements with the librarians of nine other institutions of higherlearning.Thelibraryscheduleofservicesvarieswiththeneedsofthe students, and is posted in the lobby. Dillon ChildStudyCanter The Center, an enduring memorial to MonsignorWilliam T. Dillon, late PresidentoftheCollegeandfounderoftheChildStudyDepartmentandits Laboratory Preschool, opened in 1968. ThefirstflooroftheDillionCentercontainstheofficesoftheDirectorand the school nurse, four staff offices and the library. A large Kindergarten classroomand aclassforthe Early Intervention Programforpreschoolers with a developmental delay in language are also located on thefirstfloor with observation facilities. Three preschool classrooms, each with itsown observation booth, are located onthesecondfloor, aswellaseightrooms fortesting, speech therapy, and special teaching. 6 Thesefacilitiesmakepossibleincreasedservicetothecommunity. Local public and private schools send children to St. Joseph’s for testing and consultation. The Center provides for an enrollment of approximately 100 preschool children. The Center also facilitatesthe growth of auxiliary programs and inter-institutional cooperation with nursing schools, colleges, and other educational agencies. The OutdoorTheatre OverlookingtheMall istheMolloyMemorial OutdoorTheatre, siteofthe College’sAnnual Commencement. SUFFOLK CAMPUS TheSuffolkCampusoccupiesthesiteformerlyknownasSetonHallHigh School.Themain building hasbeen significantlymodified andadaptedfor collegiate useand nowcontains: Administrativeand Faculty Offices Local History Center Classroomsand ComputerCenter Faculty and Student Lounges Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Offices for Counseling Psychology Laboratories Cafeteria and Rathskellar Nursing Dept. Laboratory Auditorium and Chapel ArtStudios and Music Room Gymnasium TheCallahanLibraryattheSuffolkCampuscompletedin1990, isanewly completed, modern 25,000 sq. ft., free-standing facility with seating for morethan300readers.Acurriculumlibrary,seminarrooms,administrative offices, and two classrooms are housed in this building. Holdings include over65,000volumes,500 periodicals,supplemented bymicrofilms, record- ings, filmstrips, slides, maps and pictures. An automated integrated local librarysystem hss been installed. Off-campus resources include the library at St. Joseph's Brooklyn Campus,with over100,000volumes,and membershipin twoassociations: Long Island Media Consortium and the Long Island Library Resources Council. These memberships establish cooperative associations with the academicandspeciallibrariesonLong Islandandinthecaseofmedia,with the public library systems of Nassau and Suffolk. The hours of library serviceare adjusted to student need and are posted in the lobby. TheClareRoseRepertoryTheatre isan integral partofthedevelopment of St. Joseph’s College and serves as a major teaching facility for the College’stheatrecourses,aswellastheperformancespacefortheCollege and local theatre productions. Inaddition,theCampusfeaturesathleticfields,twochampion-sizetennis courts, atrack, and parking facilities for800 cars. This beautiful suburban setting provides a unique background for a satisfying intellectual, social, and extra curricularcollegiateexperience. 7 ACCREDITATION AND MEMBERSHIPS Accreditation The College is accredited by the following; Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools University ofthe State of New York, State Education Department The National League for Nursing Membership The College is a memberof manyassociations, including the following: American Council on Education Association of American Colleges College Entrance Examination Board Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, Stateof New York Council ForAdultand Experiential Learning Long Island Regional Advisory Council on Higher Education National Association of College and UniversityAttorneys National Association of College and University Business Officers National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities ACADEMIC CALENDAR Classesfortheacademicyear1993-94willbeginonSeptember7,andfor 1994-95, classeswill begin onSeptember6. Toaccommodatetheneedsof the adult population, courses are scheduled in varying patterns—days, — evenings, and weekends including fourteen or fifteen-week weekday sessions, and six-week and twelve-week sessions. These are availablefor Fall and Spring semesters, with a variation of the pattern during the Summer. Students should consult the schedule of classes each semester for specific class meeting times and dates. 8