The Graduate School

Catalog of Enrollment Guidelines for Graduate Non-Matriculated Students

The Graduate School’s non-matriculated (GSP) students may be able to take courses from other academic departments on campus. If a department is not listed, students should contact the departmental office directly to inquire about enrollment.

Overview

Anthropology

The department offers two programs in the study of Anthropology: a master’s (MA) program in Anthropology and a doctoral (PhD) program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS).

Courses in the doctoral program are designated by “DPA” in the catalog and “ANT” designates master’s courses.

  • GSPs may not take any DPA courses.
  • GSPs may enroll in all ANT courses (co-taught with DPA courses) with departmental permission.
  • Students can find the ANT enrollment permission form on the Anthropology department website.

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Asian and Asian American Studies

GSPs may take any AAAS course with instructor or department consent (prereqs can be waived) .

Students can email the instructor and copy the Department Secretary Lynne.Foerster@stonybrook.edu for permission to enroll.

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Biomedical Informatics

GSPs may take ALL courses without consent.

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Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics

GSPs may take any course with instructor consent. Students should email the instructor and copy the Graduate Program Coordinator.

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Civil Engineering

For students wishing to enroll in Civil Engineering graduate courses as non-matriculated students, the following requirements apply:

  • A Bachelor of Engineering (BE) or Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
  • An undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher.
  • Departmental consent (consent from the instructor must be obtained internally).

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College of Business

All MBA, ACC, BUS, FIN and MKT courses are reserved for students officially enrolled in College of Business (CoB) programs, and are not open to GSP students. MBA courses may be available to GSP students in rare cases such as:

  • Needing specific accounting courses to qualify for the CPA exam (with prior departmental approval).
  • MBA alumni seeking enrichment
  • Students enrolled in an MBA program at another university transferring credits.

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Computer Science

GSPs can take any course with consent and seat availability. To get consent, please contact the Graduate Program Coordinator as course instructor approval is required. Additionally, review the Graduate Program Handbook for more information.

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Creative Writing

With consent, GSPs may take all courses except the Thesis course, CWL 599.

To obtain consent:

  1. Email Christian.McLean@stonybrook.edu with name of course of interest and 10-15 page writing sample attached as Word document or PDF.
  2. Once approved by instructor, complete the non-matriculated graduate student application.

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Economics

  • All courses in the MA and PhD Program need departmental permission.
  • GSPs are not permitted to take any courses in the department.

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Please note that enrollment in the following courses is generally discouraged for non-matriculated students. These courses are designed primarily for matriculated students enrolled in the MS and PhD programs, and therefore, priority for registration is given to those students.

  • ESE 507
  • ESE 558
  • ESE 568

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Genetics

  • GSPs may take without consent: BGE 510 (but consultation with the Graduate Program Director is strongly recommended)
  • GSPs may not take: BGE 530, BBE 531, BGE 691, BGE 693, BGE 599, BGE 699, BGE 800

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Graduate Nutrition

All courses in the program require a student to have taken at least an undergraduate course in physiology. Many also require that they have taken an undergraduate nutrition course. They would need to complete the program’s non-matriculated application.

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Institute for STEM Education

Available to GSPs with instructor consent:

  • CSM 546 – Topics Biotechnology, CSM 547- Topics Genetics, CSM 548 – Current Topics in Microbiology, CSM 600 – History and Philosophy of STEM Education, CSM 610 – Nature and Practice of Science, CSM 620 – STEM Teacher Education, CSM 630 – STEM Education Research, CSM 635 - Qualitative Research Methods in STEM Education, CSM 645 - Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods / Intro Statistics, and CSM 650 - Introduction to Measurement and Assessment in Science

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Journalism

GSPs may enroll in any course within the department. Some courses may require department consent.

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Languages and Cultural Studies

The department offers courses, open to GSPs, in:

  • Arabic, Classics, French, German, Greek (Modern Greek), Italian, Latin, Russian, and
  • World Language Teacher Preparation

Enrollment is available by permission of the instructor and/or the language coordinator and/or the department chairperson.

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School of Atmospheric Sciences

GSPs may take any course that has open seats, and that they have appropriate background for, with program and instructor consent. To request permission, Students may email the graduate program coordinator for permission for MA, MS, and PHD programs.

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Mathematics

This department would likely let students take any course they are academically qualified for.

  • Permission from the instructor as well as the Graduate Director are required for any graduate course, including MAT 528, 529, 532, 533,, 534, 535, 536, 548, 549.
  • A Ph.D. level math course would generally not be accessible to someone without a very strong and comprehensive undergraduate major.
  • Courses numbered higher than MAT 528, other than those specifically listed above, are completely off-limits for GSP students. An exception could only be made for students who have taken all the courses listed above (or acceptable equivalents taken at an acceptable peer institution) and made a grade of B or better in all of them.
  • To get into a math course as a GSP student: Two letters of recommendation from a faculty member to the Graduate Program Director is required. Such letters will be carefully evaluated on a case- by-case basis.

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Microbiology and Immunology

Courses available without consent:

  • HBM 503 Molecular Genetics

Courses available with consent:

  • HBM 692 Experimental Methods in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
  • HBM 640 Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis
  • HBM/HBH 522 Biology of Cancer

Courses not available to GSPs:

  • HBM 509 Experimental Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
  • HBM 510 Experimental Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
  • HBM 690 Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Seminar
  • HBM 691 Readings in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
  • HBM 693 Research Proposal Preparation in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
  • HBM 599 GraduateResearch
  • HBM 699 Dissertation Research

Contact the course director by email or phone to request permission to enroll in the course.

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Neurobiology and Behavior

These courses require consent:

  • BNB 561 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • BNB 562 Systems Neuroscience
  • BNB 560 Neuroanatomy
  • BNB 563 Advanced Topics in Neuroscience
  • BNB 564 Advanced Topics in Neuroscience
  • BNB 551 Writing in Neuroscience
  • BNB 565 Developmental Neuroscience
  • BNB 597 Neuroscience Seminar Theme
  • BNB 566 Neuroscience Seminar Neurobiology of Disease
  • BNB 697 Neuroscience Seminar
  • NEU 501 Introduction to Neuroscience Research
  • NEU 502 Reading, Writing, Speaking Neurobiology
  • NEU 517 Principles of Cell Signaling
  • NEU 521 Introduction to Cellular Neuroscience
  • NEU 522 Introduction to Molecular Neuroscience
  • NEU 531 Sensory and Motor Systems
  • NEU 532 Neural Plasticity Learning and Memory
  • NEU 534 Principles of Neurobiology
  • NEU 536 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
  • NEU 537 Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation
  • NEU 547 Introduction to Neural Computation

These courses are not available to GSPs:

  • BNB 555 Lab Rotation
  • BNB 599 Dissertation Research
  • BNB 699 Dissertation Research
  • NEU 548 MS Research Practicum in Neuroscience
  • NEU 549 MS Thesis Research

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Physics

GSPs may take any course, but please consult with the instructor to determine whether the preparation is sufficient.

To be considered for admission to the Physics Graduate program, students need to have completed the junior level core physics courses, as well as the math background required for these courses.

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Physiology and Biophysics

Courses available without consent:

  • HBY 554

Courses available with consent:

  • HBY 590, HBY  530 and HBY 501

Courses not available to GSPs:

  • HBY 570 or HBY 690

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Psychology

Psychology department graduate courses require prerequisites and are often filled to capacity. It is possible that some courses could admit a Ph.D. student from outside the department's graduate programs if the student had the right qualifications (for instance, someone from a cooperating university that is part of the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, or is enrolled the Human-Centered Date Science Advanced Graduate Certificate).

Please note that the Clinical PhD Program does not admit GSP students into their PhD courses.  These courses may be identified by visiting the Psychology Department website.

To receive information as to which courses are open to non-matriculated students, please contact the Psychology Graduate Office at PsyGrad@stonybrook.edu. Once an available course has been identified, non-matriculated students must request and receive approval to enroll from the course instructor.  All requests must cc both the Graduate Program Coordinator and the Graduate Program Director.

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Public Health

All courses are permitted for non-matriculated students through HSC (GNM). GSPs, however, receive an academic career message. In most cases, though, the program allows students to take the following courses:

  • HPH 585
  • HPH 500
  • HPH 554

Review the HSC course listing for "Courses Open to West Campus Students" for more information.

If students are only interested in taking HSC courses, they should be instructed to become a non- matriculated student through the HSC program they are most interested in pursuing.

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  • Student Services at 631-444-2074

 

Science Communication

GSPs may enroll in any course within the department. Some courses may require department consent. 

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Sociology

GSPs may not take the following courses:

  • SOC 510, SOC 502, SOC 504, SOC 505, SOC 506, SOC 512

GSPs may take any other SOC graduate course with instructor consent.

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Sustainability Studies Program: Advanced Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Sciences

GSPs may take any course that has open seats, and that they have appropriate background for, with program and instructor consent. To request permission, Students may email the graduate program coordinator.

Students wanting to take research or internship credits should contact the program director with the request and provide the following: GIS background classes, description of the research or internship project, expected work, and anticipated final product.

Note: A maximum of 6 credits taken as an undeclared graduate student can be counted toward the Geospatial Certificate. The certificate does not require GRE scores.

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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Before attempting to enroll in any coursework, you must first obtain explicit permission from the MA TESOL Program Director. See this page for contact information.

  • This initial approval is mandatory to ensure your proposed classes align with your academic goals and the program's structure.

Once you have received the Program Director's initial clearance, please adhere to the following registration guidelines:

  • Restricted Classes: Please note that LIN 524, 529, 574, 579, 581, and 582 are open only to students who have been formally admitted to the program. Non-matriculated students cannot register for these specific courses.
  • Enrollment Priority: Please keep in mind that class space is limited, and priority seating is always reserved for fully admitted students.
  • A maximum of 12 SBU credits taken as a non-matriculated student can be applied toward your MA TESOL degree.

 

Technology and Society

With department consent, GSPs may take all courses.

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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

All WST graduate courses are permitted; however, instructor permission is required.

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