Curriculum

Curriculum personnel have primary responsibility for the organization, management and delivery of the College’s curriculum and class schedule for the academic year and the summer and winter sessions. Although this office has limited direct interaction with students, it influences and implements policies and actions that affect the majority of undergraduate students' experience at Stony Brook. In collaboration with faculty governance and the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, this office administers requests for curricular initiatives, including proposals for new and revised programs and courses. This office publishes the Undergraduate Bulletin and manages University General Education courses, also known as the Diversified Education Curriculum (D.E.C.). In addition, the curriculum area coordinates the Supplemental Instructional Budget and TA/GA allocations.

Organization of the undergraduate curriculum includes:

• Publication of the printed version of the biannual Undergraduate Bulletin, the Undergraduate Bulletin Online, which is updated every semester, and the Supplement to the Bulletin.
• Coordination with the work of the Arts and Sciences Senate’s Curriculum Committee. By clicking on this link, you will find approved minutes of the Curriculum Committee meetings, recent annual reports, guidelines and forms required for submission of proposals to the committee.

Management of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum includes:

• Coordination with departments and Registrar’s office
• Large classroom assignments
• Maintenance of the College master schedule in PeopleSoft,
• Review of department course offerings and online schedule
• TA/GA allocations
• The Supplemental Instructional Budget
• Approval of new graduate courses.

Roy Lacey, Associate Dean

Kane Gillespie, Assistant Dean