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2007-2008UndergraduateCatalog501 Crescent Street New Haven, Connecticut 06515-1355(203) 392-SCSU (7278) (888) 500-SCSU (7278)www.SouthernCT.edu19839 1 Title Page.indd 19/25/07 10:46:25 AM
Chief AdministratorsChief AdministratorsCheryl J. NortonSelase W. WilliamsJames E. BlakeRonald D. HerronMegan A. RockMarcia Smith GlasperEllen R. BeattyRobert G. SheeleyMaria M. HouserW. Alvin ChaiDonnaJean A. FredeenHenry R. HeinEdward C. HarrisJames M. GranfieldSandra C. HolleyGeorge A. ApplebyRichard V. FarricielliJames L. WilliamsRose E. CretellaLise M. BruleAvon L. DennisEdward C. HarrisPresidentProvost and Vice President for Academic AffairsExecutive Vice PresidentVice President for Student and University AffairsVice President for Institutional AdvancementExecutive Assistant to the President, Director of Diversity and EquityAssociate Vice President for Academic AffairsAssociate Vice President for Capital Budgeting and Facilities OperationsInterim Associate Vice President for Human ResourcesChief Information Technology OfficerDean, School of Arts and SciencesInterim Dean, School of BusinessDean, School of Communication, Information, and Library ScienceInterim Dean, School of EducationDean, School of Graduate StudiesInterim Dean, School of Health and Human ServicesDean, Student AffairsInterim Director of AdmissionsDirector of the Academic Advisement OfficeControllerDirector of Financial Aid and ScholarshipInterim Director of Library ServicesPatrick J. DilgerDirector of Public AffairsJoseph DooleyDirector of Public SafetyLynn M. KohrnDavid J. DeninoSouthern Connecticut State University19839 02 Administration.indd 1RegistrarDirector of University Counseling Services2007-08 Undergraduate Catalog9/20/07 11:20:17 AM
Contents CONTENTS45101418222836404250130undergraduate calenderuniversity informationadmissionpart-time studyfees and expensesfinancial aidstudent servicesacademic standardsrecognition of high achievementdegree programs and university requirementsschool of arts and sciences50 Anthropology95 Literature97 Marine Studies53 Area Studies54 Art98 Mathematics60 Biology101 Media Studies63 Chemistry103 Music65 Cooperative Education106 Philosophy65 Criminal Justice Minor108 Physics66 Earth Science110 Political Science68 English115 Pre-Engineering73 Environmental Studies115 Pre-Law74 Ethnic Studies115 Pre-Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Medicine74 Foreign Languages116 Psychology82 Geography120 Religious Studies85 History120 Reserve Officer Training Corp - ROTC91 Honors College121 Sociology92 Interdisciplinary125 Theatre93 Judaic Studies127 Urban Studies94 Liberal Studies128 Women’s StudiesSchool of Business132 Accounting133 Economics and Finance137 Management/MIS140 Marketing143School of Communication, Information, and Library Science152 Journalism143 Communication147 Computer Science155 Technology Pathway150 Information and Library Science156School of Education158 Counseling andSchool Psychology158 Education172185187School of Health and Human Services172 Communication Disorders173 Nursing177 Public HealthSchool of Graduate Studies185 Seniors Granted Early Acceptanceto Graduate School185 Graduate Courses forUndergraduate Students163 Exercise Science168 School Health169 Special Education and Reading181 Recreation and Leisure183 Social Work185 Master’s Degreee andCertification Programs186 Sixth Year Professional Diploma186 Doctoral ProgramFaculty Emeriti, Faculty, and Administration2007-08 Undergraduate Catalog19839 03 Contents.indd 1Southern Connecticut State University9/20/07 11:21:21 AM
CalendarCalendar2007 FALL SEMESTERAugust 27 Monday. Academic Year BeginsAugust 28-31, Monday-Friday. Faculty MeetingsSeptember 3, Monday.Labor Day, No ClassesSeptember 4, Tuesday.First Day of ClassesNovember 21-25, Wednesday-Sunday.Thanksgiving Recess, No ClassesNovember 26, Monday. Classes Resume, 8 a.m.December 13, Thursday. Last Day of ClassesDecember 14, Friday.Make-up/Reading DayDecember 15-21, Saturday-Friday. Final Examinations2008 SPRING SEMESTERJanuary 14, Monday.Spring Semester BeginsJanuary 21, Monday.Martin Luther King Day/ClosedJanuary 22, Tuesday.First Day of ClassesFebruary 15-18, Friday-Monday.Presidents’ Weekend Recess, No ClassesFebruary 19, Tuesday. Classes Resume, 8 a.m.March 15, Saturday. Spring Recess Begins at 6 p.m.March 24, Saturday. Classes ResumeMay 7, Wednesday. Last Day of ClassesMay 8-9, Thursday, Friday.Make-up/Reading DayMay 12-17, Saturday-Friday. Final ExaminationsMay 23, Friday.Undergraduate CommencementMay 26, Monday.Memorial Day/ClosedMay 31, Wednesday. Academic Year EndsSouthern Connecticut State University reserves the right to make any changes deemed necessary, without prior notice,to the rules governing admission, tuition, fees, programs, courses, granting of degrees, or regulations. Every efforthas been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this catalog at the time of publication. The University,however, cannot be held responsible for errors and omissions.Southern Connecticut State University19839 04 Calendar.indd 12007-08 Undergraduate Catalog9/20/07 11:21:57 AM
University Information University InformationSouthern Connecticut State University, a fully accreditedinstitution of higher education, is authorized by the Connecticut General Assembly to offer courses and programsleading to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the arts andsciences and in various professional fields. Southern alsooffers a sixth year diploma in several special areas and adoctorate in education. One of four institutions governedby the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State UniversitySystem (CSUS), Southern receives its major support fromlegislative appropriations.Founded in 1893 as the New Haven State Normal School,Southern became a four-year college with degree grantingpowers in 1937. Ten years later, Southern joined with YaleUniversity’s department of education to offer a graduateprogram leading to a master of arts degree. In 1954, withSouthern changing and growing to meet the needs of itsstudents, the State Board of Education authorized theinstitution — then known as the New Haven State TeachersCollege — to assume complete responsibility for its graduate program. As a result, Southern made its name duringthe 1950s and 1960s preparing teachers in virtually everymajor scholastic area.In 1959, six years after the institution had moved to its present campus, state legislation expanded Southern’s offeringsto include liberal arts curricula leading to bachelor’s degreesin the arts and sciences, as well as career-oriented degreeprograms in fields such as nursing, social work, business, andcomputer sciences. The expanded curricular offerings alsoresulted in the legislature changing the institution’s name toSouthern Connecticut State College.Since then, Southern has continued its growth as a modern, diversified center of higher learning, expanding bothits undergraduate and graduate programs and opening upentirely new fields of study and research. In March 1983Southern became a university, completing its evolution.Today, the University is composed of six academic schools:the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business,the School of Communication, Information, and LibraryScience, the School of Education, the School of Health andHuman Services, and the School of Graduate Studies. In2002, the University introduced the Doctor of Educationdegree program, and its first Ed.D. degree was conferredat the 2006 commencement. With its strong and healthyidentity intact and its fine traditions for support, Southerncan look to a future as varied, dynamic, responsive, andresponsible as its past.2007-08 Undergraduate Catalog19839 05 University Information.1 1CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEMSouthern is a campus of the Connecticut State UniversitySystem (CSUS) and, as such, is governed by the Board ofTrustees for the Connecticut State University System. Othercampuses of CSUS are Central Connecticut State University at New Britain, Eastern Connecticut State Universityat Willimantic, and Western Connecticut State Universityat Danbury.PHILOSOPHYSouthern’s philosophy of education grows out of four relatedfunctions: liberal education, professional education, graduatestudy and research, and public service.A liberal education provides a point of view shaped byknowledge and understanding of our cultural heritage andour physical and social environment. At the center of thisviewpoint is a system of values and the capacity to makediscriminating judgments based on reason.A professional education, on the other hand, preparesqualified practitioners for public service to the state andcooperates in the development of standards and the betterment of technology in several fields.Southern’s programs in graduate study and research challenge mature students who wish to extend and strengthen aliberal education or to improve their professional skills.As a public service, Southern provides educational andcultural opportunities for everyone in the area on a parttime basis, day or evening, for professional advancementor personal enrichment. Its clinics provide diagnosis andtreatment of speech, hearing, and reading problems andlearning disabilities. In the fine arts, Southern also playshost to conferences, institutes, workshops, exhibitions, andperformances that both instruct and delight.To perform its role effectively and responsibly, SouthernConnecticut State University accepts students without regardto age, sex, race, color, creed, sexual preference, nationalorigin, or disability.THE MISSIONThe University’s mission is to enhance its position as thepreeminent comprehensive metropolitan public university ofthe State of Connecticut. As a learning community groundedin the values of liberal education, the University is committedto students distinguished by their intellectual competencies,their skills for flexible adaptation to global change, and bySouthern Connecticut State University9/20/07 11:22:22 AM
University Informationtheir habits of cultural enrichment for life-long inquiry. Asthe lead institution of advanced study in the ConnecticutState Institution System, SCSU is committed to the professional preparation of graduate learners for success in theircareers and in service to their communities. As an academicenvironment, the University is committed to innovativeteaching strategies, scholarship, and creative activities thatproduce knowledge, refresh faculty expertise, and amplifyteaching effectiveness.To fulfill this mission:— The University builds on the strengths and values ofcurrent programs and services. The University will continueto respond to the evolution of society by enhancing currentprograms and developing additional ones to meet the changing needs of the state, the nation, and the world.— The University embraces its responsibility to design aculture of competencies in which undergraduate learnersdemonstrate the ability to investigate, question, appreciate,communicate, collaborate, evaluate, and adapt to change.The University encourages learners to value responsiblecitizenship, sensitivity toward others, historical and culturaldiversity, and awareness of the global environment. Undergraduates master both a well-defined general educationcurriculum in the liberal arts and sciences and a coherentmajor field of study.— The University presents programs of advanced study thatoffer advanced learners state-of-the-art professional preparation and quality learning experiences. The University regardscareer preparation and the placement of graduates as one ofits greatest strengths and highest priorities. Learners meet themost rigorous expectations of their chosen professions, sothat they may better serve Connecticut’s schools, businesses,and health and human services.— The University continues to serve Connecticut’s diversecommunities. The University will improve collaboration withthe social, economic, educational, cultural, and communityinstitutions that comprise its region. The University willexpand its range of accessible cultural and social programsresponsive to community interests.— The University continues vigorously to foster teachingexcellence and the most progressive teaching strategies. TheUniversity seeks to match attention to the latest informationand learning technologies with traditional methods of classroom and non-classroom learning. Southern ConnecticutState University generates knowledge and advances itstransmission to the academic community through the scholarship and creativity of its faculty. The University encouragesall those who work and study at Southern Connecticut StateUniversity to pursue engagement in their disciplines, and tokeep current with the information and skills required by allacademic fields, occupations, and professions.— The University commits itself to strive for continuousquality improvement in all of its efforts. The Universitycontinually will verify the effectiveness of the mission andits accompanying agenda through systematic self-evaluationand assessment of outcomes.UNIVERSITY OVERVIEWIn fall 2006, the University served 12,326 students. Ofthose, 8,577 were undergraduate students and 3,749 weregraduate students. Approximately 2,600 students live oncampus. Nearly 75 percent of the students are in the 18-29age group, with more than 39 percent falling in the 20-24Southern Connecticut State University19839 05 University Information.2 2age bracket. Almost 71 percent of the University’s studentsclassify themselves as Caucasian, 10.5 percent as AfricanAmerican, 5.8 percent as Hispanic, and 2.4 percent asAsian. (Approximately 8.6 percent chose not to identify theirethnicity.) More than 65 percent of the students are femaleand 94 percent are Connecticut residents. SCSU has studentsfrom virtually every town in Connecticut, 46 other states,and 36 countries. SCSU serves a diverse student population, half of whom are the first in their families to graduatefrom college, and almost 17 percent are students of color.More than 36 percent of undergraduate students and mostgraduate students work more than 20 hours per week. TheUniversity also provides a range of educational supportservices to 490 students with disabilities, one of the largestsuch populations at any Connecticut campus, and SCSU’sregionally-known Disabilities Resource Center attracts bothin-state and out-of-state students.The University awarded 2,320 degrees in 2005-2006,including 1,237 bachelor’s degrees, 881 master’s degrees,and its first two doctoral degrees. Among the largest majorsat SCSU are psychology, sociology, history, English, education, business administration, communication, nursing, andsocial work. The University also awarded 142 sixth-yearprofessional diplomas.The University employs a primarily unionized workforceof approximately 935 individuals full-time, including 216professional employees; 128 secretarial/clerical staff; 33executive employees; and 178 technical, crafts, and maintenance staff. The 409 full-time and 592 part-time teachingfaculty are all represented by the American Association ofUniversity Professors. ACCREDITATIONSouthern Connecticut State University is a fully accreditedinstitution, having met the standards of the Connecticut Boardof Governors for Higher Education and the Connecticut StateBoard of Education.Selected University programs are accredited by— American Association for Marriage and FamilyTherapy— American Chemical Society— American Library Association— Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education— Computing Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology— Commission on the Accreditation of Athletic TrainingEducation— Council on Academic Accreditation of the AmericanSpeech-Language-Hearing Association— Council for Accreditation of Counseling and RelatedEducational Programs— Council on Education for Public Health— Council on Social Work Education— National Association of School Psychology— National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education2007-08 Undergraduate Catalog9/20/07 11:22:23 AM
University Information FACULTYThe University’s greatest strength is its faculty. Educatedin universities in the United States and around the world,faculty members are selected on the basis of their scholarlycompetence in a specialized field. Books, articles in professional journals, and other scholarly publications by Southernfaculty are in colleges and libraries throughout the UnitedStates. By taking part in scholarly societies and educationalorganizations and by acting as officers and participants atconferences, these scholar-teachers bring distinction to theUniversity and inspiration to its students.CAMPUSSouthern’s 168-acre campus consists of a variety of buildings and recreational centers. Among these are:Adanti Student CenterThe Michael J. Adanti Student Center is a 125,000 squarefoot, modern multi-purpose facility located on the cornerof Crescent and Fitch Streets. The student center provideseducational, cultural, social, and recreational programsthat complement education outside the classroom. Thenew center houses a state-of-the-art fitness center, fireplacelounge, ballroom, Barnes and Noble College Bookstore,coffee house, and three dining establishments. The centerhas multiple lounges, meeting rooms, a gameroom, a 200seat movie theatre, campus police, computer labs, as wellas office space for clubs and organizations. In addition, theAdanti Center offers a resource/information center as well asaccess to e-mail terminals, wireless services, and a computerloan program t
2007-08 Undergraduate Catalog Southern Connecticut State University Southern Connecticut State University, a fully accredited institution of higher education, is authorized by the Con-necticut General Assembly to offer courses and programs leading to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
