Graduate Catalog
Campus Center
Office: Campus Center (1C), Room 201
The Campus Center is the focal point of extra- and co-curricular
student life. It houses the Office of Student Life, the Student
Government and clubs, student publications, the CSI Association
Inc., and the Auxiliary Services Corporation. Such services as
the bookstore, cafeteria, Park Cafe, the College Health Center,
the Wellness Program, and the Peer Drop-in Center are located
in the Campus Center. Lounges for entertainment and studying,
a computer lab, a video game room, conference and meeting rooms,
and lockers are available for student use. WSIA-FM (88.9) broadcasts
from the Campus Center. Questions regarding use of facilities
and locker rentals may be directed to the Campus Center, Room
201. The telephone number is 1.718.982.3071.
Center for the Arts
Office: Center for the Arts (1P), Room 116
The Center for the Arts contains, in the instructional wing, the
Department of Media Culture and the Department of Performing and
Creative Arts, studios, performance and rehearsal spaces, a screening
room, a recital hall, a studio theater, film and video production
facilities, and laboratories for communications and graphics.
The workshops include facilities for print making, painting, sculpture,
photography, electronic music, and recording. The Center houses
the Clara and Arleigh B. Williamson Theatre, a 442-seat, proscenium-stage
theater; a 911-seat Concert Hall; a recital hall and a lecture
hall; and an art gallery. The Center for the Arts presents a year-round
performing arts series that includes jazz, drama, dance, classical,
popular, folk, world, country, and family programming.
Center for International Service
Office: North Administration Building (2A), Room 206
The Center for International Service encourages and supports the
international component of the academic life of the College. The
Center provides direction and assistance in matters affecting
the College's international student population, sponsors study
abroad programs, directs scholar and student exchange programs,
administers the English Language Institute, and facilitates international
development programs. Guidance for the Center's activities is
provided by a faculty advisory committee.
Disability Services
Office: Center for the Arts (1P), Room 101
The Office of Disability Services has responsibility for providing
services
for students with documented disabilities. All documentation
is kept
confidential and should be submitted directly to the Office.
Services
include pre-admissions counseling and accessibility information,
advisement, priority registration, and testing accommodations.
Software for tutorial programs, personal computers, scientific
calculators, tape recorders, and a Braille writer are available.
The
Resource Center for the Deaf serves the specific needs of deaf
and hard
of hearing students by providing interpreters, captioning, tutors,
and
notetakers. Interpreters are available for academic advisement,
teacher
conferences, or College business. The College’s policy
for students with
disabilities conforms to federal guidelines and the Office of
Disability
Services offers services mandated by federal and state law. All
students
with disabilities are encouraged to use the services of the Office.
Services are also available to students who are temporarily disabled.
www.csi.cuny.edu/disabilityservices
Evening, Summer, and Weekend
Services
Office: North Administration
Building (2A), Room 204
A wide choice of courses have regularly scheduled evening,
summer,
and weekend classes as integral components of the College's
offerings.
Courses are scheduled to accommodate matriculated students
in
graduate, baccalaureate, and associate's degree programs who
can
attend only in the evening or on weekends, as well as those
students
whose classes are mainly on weekdays.
The Summer Session offers
undergraduate and
graduate courses in a mix of schedules: four-week courses meet
day and evening, Monday through Thursday in June and July;
six-week
courses meet Saturday and Sunday mornings during June and July;
eight-week courses meet day and evening, Monday/Wednesday or
Tuesday/
Thursday during June and July.
Matriculated and non-matriculated
students
may register for one or more courses in the evening, summer,
and
weekend sessions.
Health Services
Office: Campus Center (1C), Room 112
The College Health Center, located on the main floor of the
Campus
Center, Room 112, is staffed by College personnel, including
a
full-time Registered Nurse and part-time nurse practitioners
(funded
by the Student Activity Fee) in collaboration with Staten Island
University Hospital. Services include emergency care, physicals,
immunizations, consultations, and referrals to outside agencies
and clinics, smoking cessation, nutritional counseling, and
HIV/AIDS
counseling and testing. The telephone number is 1.718.982.3045;
TTY 1.718.982.3315; email: healthcenter@mail.csi.cuny.edu.
For more information, please consult our Webpage at www.csi.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/healthcenter.
Laboratories
The Biological Sciences/Chemical Sciences Building (6S),
home of the Department of Biology, the Department of Chemistry,
the Center for Environmental Science, and the Center for Developmental
Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities, contains 74 state-of-the
art laboratories for study and research. The ten departmental
buildings in the Academic Quadrangles house instructional, tutorial,
and research laboratories; and personal computer classrooms.
Library/Media Services
Office: Library (1L), Room 109
The Library is the focal point of the South Academic Quadrangle.
The building, with its distinctive rotunda, is the home for five
central services: a study center for the campus community, a broad
collection of books and journals in the liberal arts and sciences,
computer facilities and online services and databases that serve
as points-of-access to informational resources beyond the walls
of the Library, an instructional facility for the teaching of
information retrieval and information literacy; and media distribution
services in support of instruction.
Seventy-five computer workstations for student
use are available throughout the building. The general reference
area is located on the first floor, as is the faculty Center for
Excellence in Learning Technology. The second floor leads to the
elegant archives facility, the distance-learning center, the microform
area, the Library instruction facility, and the Media Services
unit. The circulating book collection and the print journal holdings
are housed on the third floor.
| Hours of Service |
| Monday -Thursday |
8:00am -10:00pm |
| Friday |
8:00am - 8:00pm |
| Saturday |
8:30am - 5:00pm |
| Sunday |
Noon - 5:00pm |
Hours of service during summer session, intersession, and holidays
are posted at the Library entrance and on the Library homepage,
www.library.csi.cuny.edu.
Borrowing Privileges: Students and faculty
from CSI and other CUNY colleges must present current ID cards
in order to borrow books. Students and faculty may obtain ID cards
from the College Office of Public Safety. Overdue books, lost
books, or unpaid fines may result in the suspension of borrowing
privileges.
The Collection: The holdings include 210,000
bound volumes of books, 96 online databases (of which more than
30 are full text), 1,100 current print journal subscriptions,
800 titles in microform, 2,000 videos and films, and over 4,000
sound recordings.
The Online Catalog: The CSI Library is a member
of the CUNY-wide integrated library system. Access to CUNY+, the
online union catalog portion of the system, is available throughout
the campus as well as from offsite.
Reference librarians provide service at the
General Reference Desk on the first floor at all times when the
Library is open. The Library instruction service includes orientation
tours, open workshops, presentations to classes by reference specialists
in connection with specific course assignments, and the compilation
of bibliographic aids.
Media Services
Director: Mr. Mark Lewental
Media Services provides audio-visual support for classroom
use, as well
as student viewing facilities in the Library. Our office manages
and
makes accessible the College's collection of videotapes, DVDs,
and other
media. The Media Distribution System, using fiber optic technology,
serves a large number of classrooms equipped with LCD projectors,
plasma monitors, and Smart Classroom technology. Media Services
also
operates the Videoconferencing Lab, manages the Student Laptop
Loan
Program, and oversees the Center for Excellence in Learning
Technology (CELT), which assists faculty in using technology
to
promote better learning.
Office of Information Technology
North Administration Building (2A), Room 303
Vice President for Technology Systems, Dr. Michael Kress
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) advances and supports
the use of information technology at the College. OIT administers
20 general purpose computer laboratories and 23 specialized computing
laboratories in conjunction with academic departments for student
use. The microcomputers, approximately 2,500 on campus, are connected
through a high-speed local area network. This hardware configuration
allows students, faculty, and staff full access to specialized
software, the Internet, online library resources, and email. Forty-five
classrooms, two conference rooms, and two portable units are equipped
to run multimedia presentations from a central location. One of
the conference rooms is equipped for two-way videoconferencing.
Most microcomputers on campus use Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
The OIT homepage is www.csi.cuny.edu/technologysystems/.
Email Accounts
All CSI students are automatically set up with an email
account when they register for classes their first semester. Student's
can obtain information about their account by visiting any open
computer laboratory; by going to the Library Building (1L), Room
204; by calling 1.718.982.4080, or by going to our Website at
www.csi.cuny.edu/studenthelpdesk/ServicesInstructions.htm.
Sports and Recreation Center
Office: Sports and Recreation Center (1R), Room 204
This 77,000 square-foot, multipurpose facility and surrounding
athletic fields serve the intercollegiate and intramural sports
and recreation programs for students. On a membership basis, faculty,
staff, alumni, and the general public also have access to the
facilities.
Student Services
Office: South Administration Building (1A), Room 301
Vice President Carol Jackson, Associate Dean Michael R. Daniels
The Division of Student Affairs is committed to providing quality
services and programs that support the mission of the College
and
enhance the learning and development of our diverse populations
of
students.
The programs and services coordinated through the Division
of Student
Affairs are provided by professionals committed to students'
intellectual,
emotional, social, cultural, and recreational development.
The offices providing the programs and services of the Division
are:
Career and Scholarship Center 1A-105 1.718.982.2300
Center for the Arts 1P-116 1.718.982.2504
Counseling Center 1A-109 1.718.982.2392
CSI Association 1C-202 1.718.982.3097
Disability Services 1P-101
1.718.982.2510
Graduate Admissions 2A-103
1.718.982.2190
Health Center 1C-112
1.718.982.3045
New Student Orientation/CLUE 2A-208
1.718.982.2529
SEEK 1A-112
1.718.982.2415
Sports and Recreation 1R-204 1.718.982.3160
Student Life 1C-201
1.718.982.3074
Wellness Program 1C-112 1.718.982.3113
