Undergraduate Bulletin

Graduate Courses

Upper-division students with superior academic records may take graduate courses with the permission of the Dean of the Graduate School, or continuing education courses with permission of the Dean of the School of Professional Development, for undergraduate credit. (Teaching practica, readings, research, or other independent study are excluded.) Permission of the instructor and the chair of the department offering the course is also necessary. Permission forms are available online from the Graduate School ( http://www.grad.sunysb.edu ), the School of Professional Development, and various advising offices and must be presented, after the necessary signatures are obtained, at the Registrar’s Office when registering for the approved course.

Students should discuss their plans to take graduate courses with their advisors in order to assess whether the credit will be applicable to their degree requirements. Students receiving any form of financial aid should contact the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Services prior to enrolling in graduate courses. Students with majors in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences who would like to apply graduate credits to their majors must get the approval of their department’s undergraduate program director; approval forms are available in the CEAS Undergraduate Student Office.

Graduate courses taken while a student is an undergraduate remain part of the undergraduate record. Undergraduate students who have been admitted to the Graduate School at Stony Brook may apply a maximum of twelve credits toward the graduate degree for courses taken with advance approval and future offer of admission to the Graduate School. These credits may not be applied to the undergraduate degree.