QUEENS COLLEGE Undergraduate Bulletin
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Undergraduate Bulletin2 0 11 – 2 0 1 2James L. Muyskens, President65-30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, New York 11367-1597718-997-5000 www.qc.cuny.edu
A Message from the PresidentViewed from our tree-lined campus, the Manhattanskyline symbolizes to our students the brightlights within their reach. But what most definestheir aspirations is the front gate of QueensCollege. Whether their journeys began in a nearbyneighborhood or in a village in Korea or Kenya,students who enter our front gate meet a faculty andstaff who will inspire them and help them fulfill thepromise of their potential.In 1937, undaunted by the Great Depression, Queens College welcomed itsfirst students, many of them the sons and daughters of the newest Americans.Queens College was known then as “the College of the Future,” a propheticphrase. In every decade since, extraordinary students have passed through ourfront entrance and received a fine education that prepared them to live up to ourmotto, Discimus ut Serviamus: We Learn so that We May Serve.As the great poet William Butler Yeats said, “Education is not the filling ofa pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Although the goal is always to light the fireof intellectual curiosity in our students, the way in which this is done changesthrough the years.To be sure we at Queens College are lighting fires as effectively as possible,we recently revised our curriculum, the first major revision the college hasundertaken in almost a quarter century, a time that has witnessed an explosionof knowledge and a revolution in technology. The curriculum at Queens Collegeis now carefully designed so that when our students graduate, they will have theability to: think critically; address complex problems; communicate their ideasclearly; explore various cultures; and use modern technologies and informationresources.If you are a high-achieving student, you should know that Queens Collegeparticipates in the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College,which offers terrific perks such as free tuition and a free laptop computer.We also offer honors programs in the Humanities, Mathematics and NaturalSciences, and Social Sciences. And all our students can take advantage ofcountless opportunities to study abroad and intern with top researchers andprofessionals.It will be easy for you to become involved on campus as we have over 100 clubsand sports teams to choose from, including 19 teams that compete in Division IIsports. And our award-winning Freshman Year Initiative will hook you up witha small group of students you can attend classes and study with, so it feels as ifyou are starting your college years with a group of old friends.There is no better time to become a Queens College student. I invite you to learnmore about the extraordinary learning community that is Queens College.James MuyskensPresident of Queens College
ContentsCalendar4Queens College Today6Admissions & Programs14Student Life24Tuition & Fees31Paying for college35Curriculum41General EducationRequirements46Scholarships, Honors& Awards57Academic Policies& Procedures62Courses of Study74city University ofNew York340University Policies342Faculty 350DEPARTMENTSAcademic SupportAccounting & Information SystemsAdult Collegiate EducationAfricana StudiesAmerican StudiesAnthropologyArtBiologyBusiness & Liberal ArtsByzantine & Modern Greek StudiesChemistry & BiochemistryClassical, Middle Eastern& Asian Languages & CulturesCollege English as a Second LanguageComparative LiteratureComputer ScienceCooperative Education & InternshipsDrama, Theatre & DanceEarth & Environmental Sciences, School ofEconomicsEducation DivisionElementary & Early Childhood EducationSecondary Education & Youth ServicesEducational & Community ProgramsEnglishEuropean Languages & LiteraturesFamily, Nutrition & Exercise SciencesFilm StudiesHispanic Languages & LiteraturesHistoryHonors Programs at Queens CollegeMacaulay Honors 1157162172175179183184193208218219225234234Honors in the HumanitiesHonors in the Mathematical& Natural SciencesHonors in the Social SciencesInterdisciplinary & Special StudiesIrish StudiesItalian-American StudiesJewish StudiesJournalismLabor StudiesLatin American & Latino StudiesThe LibraryLibrary & Information StudiesLinguistics & Communication DisordersMathematicsMedia StudiesMusic, Aaron Copland School of MusicNeurosciencePhilosophyPhysicsPolitical SciencePsychologyReligious StudiesScienceSocial Sciences SeminarSociologySpecial Programs (SEEK)Student PersonnelUrban StudiesWomen’s StudiesWorker Education: LEAP & BASSWorld StudiesCourses in 337
CalendarNote: The information on this calendar is subject to change; check the QC website for updates.FALL 2011SPRING 2012Emergency ClosingsAugust 26 – FridayFirst day of Fall weekday classes.January 27 – FridayFirst day of Spring weekday classes.September 5 – MondayLabor Day – College closed.February 13 – MondayLincoln’s Birthday – College closed.Should some emergency necessitate the closing of thecollege, every e ffort will be made to provide a timelyannouncement over the following radio stations:September 28–30 – Wednesday-FridayNo classes scheduled.February 20 – MondayPresidents’ Day – College closed.October 4 – TuesdayClasses follow a Friday schedule.February 21 – TuesdayClasses follow a Monday schedule.October 7-8 – Friday-SaturdayNo classes scheduled.April 6–15 – Friday-SundaySpring Recess.October 10 – MondayColumbus Day observance – College closed.May 15 – TuesdayLast day of Spring weekday classes.November 22 – TuesdayClasses follow a Thursday schedule.May 16–24 – Wednesday-ThursdayFinal examinations.November 24–27 – Thursday–SundayThanksgiving recess – College closed.May 28 – MondayMemorial Day observance – College closed.December 13 – TuesdayLast day of Fall weekday classes.May 31 – ThursdayCommencementWADO1280 AMWBLS107.5 FMWCBS880 AM101.1 FMWFAS1230 AMwww.fasam.com104 FMwww.fasfm.comWINS1010 AMWLIB1190 AMWOR www.wor710.comImportant Notice of Possible ChangesThe Board of Trustees of the City University of New Yorkreserves the right to make changes of any nature in theacademic programs and requirements of the City Universityof New York and its constituent colleges. All programs,requirements, and courses are subject to termination orchange without advance notice. Tuition and fees set forth inthis publication are similarly subject to change by the CUNYBoard of Trustees.Photography by Don HamermanDecember 14–22 – Wednesday-ThursdayFinal examinations.Queens College is an affirmative action/equal opportunityeducator and employer.2011–2012 UnderGraduate Bulletin 4
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Queens College TodayFounded in 1937, Queens College is dedicated to theidea that a first-rate education should be accessible totalented people of all backgrounds and financial means.The college’s strong liberal arts curriculum—with over100 undergraduate and graduate programs—assuresstudents an education for a fulfilling life and career.The mission of Queens College is to prepare studentsto become leading citizens of an increasingly globalsociety. The college accomplishes this by offering arigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences underthe guidance of a faculty dedicated to teaching andexpanding the frontiers of knowledge. Students also cantake advantage of the college’s numerous opportunitiesto study abroad and to intern with leading companiesand top researchers. Queens College students graduatewith the ability to think critically, address complexproblems, explore various cultures, and use moderntechnologies and information resources.The Princeton Review’s America’s Best Collegesannually lists the college for its outstanding academics,generous financial aid packages, relatively low costs,and diversity. Indeed, the students of Queens Collegerepresent a vibrant mix of cultures; they hail from170 different countries and speak more than 90 nativelanguages, providing an extraordinary educationalenvironment.It would be easy to think of Queens College as a77-acre city with a population of over 20,000 students,faculty, and staff. The college offers all the benefits ofa city—excellent cultural attractions including the onlycomprehensive art museum in the borough of Queens,readings by renowned writers, performing arts events,scholarly conferences, and numerous places to eat—ona surprisingly peaceful and attractive campus with amagnificent view of the Manhattan skyline. Studentsfind the campus a comfortable place to be, with newcybercafés and over 100 clubs and sports in which theycan participate. Queens is also the only City Universitycollege that participates in Division II sports. Recentlythe college opened its first residence hall, The Summit,an environment-friendly building that features fully furnished two- and four-bedroom suites.Funded by the State of New York, Queens Collegeserves all the people of the state. The campus is locatedoff Exit 24 of the Long Island Expressway (I-495) onKissena Boulevard in Flushing, close to the Long IslandRailroad and New York City public transportation.EnrollmentQueens College, with the most rigorous admissions standards in the City University system, has a student population that is achievement oriented. Over 20,000 studentsare enrolled in all divisions. Our students are dedicatedto learning; over 40% are the first in their families toattend college, and two-thirds work at least part-time tosupport their education.Student AchievementRecent graduates have won fellowships, scholarships,and assistantships for study at many of the country’s2011–2012 UnderGraduate Bulletin 6leading graduate schools, including Yale, Columbia,Duke, Sarah Lawrence, and MIT. A number of our students have received special awards for graduate study,most notably several recent Salk Fellowships, Marshall Scholarships, a Goldwater Scholarship, a TrumanScholarship, a Clark Foundation Fellowship, a FulbrightGrant, and a National Security Education Program(NSEP) Boren Scholarship.FacultyQueens College has an outstanding faculty of scholarswho care deeply about teaching, research, andcommunity issues. Over the years they have receivednumerous fellowships and research grants, includingtwo Guggenheim Awards and two Fulbright Grants,plus a recent 19.5 million award from the U.S.Department of Energy, one of the largest grants thecollege has ever received. The City University of NewYork (CUNY) has recognized the excellence of thefaculty by honoring a number of its members with thetitle of Distinguished Professor in fields as diverse aschemistry and biochemistry, economics, English, earthand environmental sciences, history, Italian Americanstudies, physics, psychology, and sociology. For dayand evening classes, there are more than 1,000 faculty(including adjuncts).
ResearchThe college receives millions of dollars in funding forresearch each year. Support comes from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Department ofEnergy, and the Department of Defense. Recent awardshave included grants to monitor the health of workerswho were involved in the cleanup at or near ground zeroafter the destruction of the World Trade Center; to promote ethnic studies projects and day-care training services; and to establish a Reference Resource Center forthe New York State Department of Social Services.Undergraduates are often deeply involved in facultyresearch projects, working in laboratories, classrooms,or in the field, gaining important insight into potentialcareer paths.Academic StructureQueens College offers day and evening classes at bothundergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, thereis a Weekend College and Winter and Summer Sessions. The college has four academic divisions: Arts andHuman ities, Education, Mathema tics and the NaturalSciences, and Social Sciences. Each division is dividedinto academic departments and programs, each with itsown chair/director and the faculty members who teachwithin it.The Division of Arts and Human ities includesthe departments of Art; Classical, Middle Eastern, andAsian Languages and Cultures; Comparative Literature; Drama, Theatre, and Dance; English; EuropeanLanguages and Literatures; Hispanic Languages andLiteratures; Library; Linguistics and Communi cationDisorders; Media Studies; and the Aaron CoplandSchool of Music; as well as programs in AmericanStudies, Film Studies, Honors in the Humanities, andWorld Studies.The Division of Education includes the departments of Elementary and Early Childhood Education;Educational and Community Programs; and Secondary Education and Youth Services, which includes theTIME 2000 honors program in secondary educationmathematics.exceptionally, junior) year is a unique distinction. Noone may apply to join Phi Beta Kappa, but the nominating committee takes care to find those whose programslive up to the society’s ideals. More information may beob tained from members who serve as liaison officers ineach academic department.The Division of Mathematics and theNatural Sciences includes the departments of Biology; Chemistry and Bio chem istry; Computer Science;Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences; Mathematics; Physics; Psychology; and the School of Earth andEnvironmental Sciences; plus a program for Honors inMathematical and Natural Sciences.Golden Key International Honor Society isan interdisciplinary undergraduate academic honorsorganization with over 300 chapters around the world.The purposes of the Society are to recognize andencourage scholastic achievement, to unite with facultyand administrators in developing and maintaininghigh standards of education, to provide scholarships tooutstanding members, and to promote altruistic conductthrough voluntary service. The award-winning QueensCollege chapter was chartered in 1986. Invitations areextended to sophomore, junior, and senior students whorank in the top 15 percent of their class.The Division of Social Sciences includes thedepartments of Accounting and Information Systems;Anthro pology; Economics; History; Philos ophy;Political Science; Sociology; Student Personnel; UrbanStudies; and the Graduate School of Library andInformation Studies, as well as programs in AfricanaStudies, Applied Social Science, Business Administration, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, East AsianStudies, Honors in the Social Sciences, Irish Studies,Italian-American Studies, Interdisciplinary and SpecialStudies, Jewish Studies, Journalism, Labor Studies,Latin American and Latino Studies, Religious Studies,and Women’s Studies.Honor SocietiesPhi Beta Kappa, a nationwide organization and theoldest college society still active, honors good character,intellectual enthusiasm, and outstanding scholarshipin the liberal arts and sciences. The Sig ma Chapter ofNew York was authorized at the college in Fall 1949and installed on January 9, 1950. Each year it elects asmembers a limited number of students whose recordsin the liberal arts are superior in breadth and depth ofstudy. Election to membership in a student’s senior (or,2011–2012 UnderGraduate Bulletin 7Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, is anonprofit membership society of nearly 75,000scientists and engineers who were elected to the societybecause of their research achievements or researchpotential. Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi has more than500 chapters at universities and colleges, governmentlaboratories, and industry research centers. The QueensCollege chapter was organized in 1968. In addition topublishing the American Scien tist, Sigma Xi awardsgrants annually to promising young researchers, holdsforums on critical issues at the intersection of scienceand society, and sponsors a variety of programssupporting honor in science and engineering, scienceeducation, science policy, and the public understandingof science.Membership in Sigma Xi is by invitation. Those whohave shown potential as researchers are invited to joinas associate members. Full membership is conferredupon those who have demonstrated noteworthyachievements in research.
Kappa Delta Pi, the National Honor Society inEducation founded in 1911, recognized the KappaGamma Chapter at the college on December 16, 1963.Kappa Delta Pi encourages excellence in scholarship,high personal standards, improvement in teacher preparation, distinction in achievement, and contributions toeducation. Invi tations are extended to students on thebasis of their cumulative education accomplishmentsand promise in the field of teaching.Alpha Sigma Lambda, Upsilon Chap ter, is a nationalcollege honor society. The opportunity to join is offeredto a limited group of nontraditional students in recognition of superior academic achievement. Criteria for consideration include diversity of program, credit load, anda distinguished cumulative academic average. Of thoseeligible, only a limited number are nominated eachSpring for membership.The following honor societies have chapters atQueens College:Beta Delta Phi (Biology)Beta Delta Chi (Chemistry & Biochemistry)Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science)Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics)Phi Upsilon Omicron (Family andConsumer Sciences)AccreditationQueens College is registered by the New York StateEducation Department (Office of Higher Education andthe Professions, Cultural Education Center, Room 5B28,Albany, NY 12230; 518-474-5851). It is accredited bythe Commission on Higher Education: Middle StatesAssociation of Colleges and Schools, 3624 MarketStreet, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2680; 215-662-5606;fax 215-662-5501. The college is also approved by theMiddle States Associ ation of Colleges and SecondarySchools. The American Association of Colleges forTeacher Education includes Queens in its list of membercolleges.Specific programs at the college are accredited bytheir disciplinary associations:American Association of Family and Consumer SciencesAmerican Audiology and Speech Language Pathology,Council on Academic AccreditationAmerican Chemical SocietyAmerican Dietetic Association, Commission onAccreditation/Approval for Dietetics EducationAmerican Library AssociationAmerican Psychological Association, Committee onAccreditationNational Association of Schools and Music, Commissionon AccreditationNational Council for Accreditation of Teacher EducationPi Delta Phi (French)Delta Phi Alpha (German)Phi Alpha Theta (History)Gamma Kappa Alpha (Italian)Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics)Pi Kappa Lambda (Music)Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science)Psi Chi (Psychology)Dobro Slovo (Slavic)Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology)Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish)FacilitiesThe college’s campus, lined with trees surroundinggrassy open spaces, consists of 35 buildings on 77 acres.Some of the original stucco-and-tile buildings from theearly 1900s still stand, contributing to the pleasantlyeclectic style of the campus. A major building programis continuing and includes greatly expanded classroomand research facilities, as well as spaces for variedcampus activities. Virginia Frese Hall houses the officesof the Vice President for Enrollment Management andStudent Affairs and other student service offices. Hightech Powdermaker Hall is home to the social sciencesand education departments.2011–2012 UnderGraduate Bulletin 8Just off Melbourne Avenue is the Science Building,which houses laboratories and offices for five sciencedepartments. At the western edge of the Quadrangle isthe Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library. West of the libraryis an expanded parking facility and several rebuiltathletic fields. Facing Reeves Avenue is the MusicBuilding, adjacent to Colden Auditorium and GoldsteinTheatre. Klapper Hall is home to the art and Englishdepartments as well as the Godwin-Ternbach Museum.On the eastern edge of the Quad are Kiely Hall, withthe college’s administrative
Board of Trustees. Photography by Don Hamerman Queens College is an affirmative action/equal opportunity educator and employer. Calendar Note: The information on this calendar is subject to change; check the QC website for updates. Fall 2011 august 26 – Friday First day of Fall weekday classes. september 5 – monday Labor Day – College closed.
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