The Professional Skills for the Workplace Microcredential conveys a basic knowledge of how economic enterprises manage their internal operations and market the goods or services they offer. It is designed to help students preparing to enter the workforce and workers needing to upgrade their skills...
Professionals and professionalism have come to be the hallmarks of the modern middle class. The BPS in Professional Studies prepares students to operate in this milieu through a set of skills-based classes that cultivate the knowledge and abilities needed to succeed in the white-collar world...
Basic psychological knowledge is essential for an understanding of modern culture. Discourse in the arts, media and politics is infused with assumptions about the psyche. Educational debates hinge on differing theories of learning and cognition. Medicine and science are increasingly aware of the...
Completion of requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology ensures that students have been given an extensive background in research methods and have been introduced to the basic areas of specialization within psychology. While some students begin employment with a Bachelor’s degree, in...
The Psychology Department provides students with a background in the major areas of expertise within the modern discipline of psychology. Completion of requirements for a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology ensures that students have been given an extensive background in research methods and have been...
In this minor, students will learn about how our social, political and economic environment shapes population health, about the structure of the U.S. health system, and about how to apply the empirical skills of epidemiology. They will also gain expertise in major topic areas. All electives offered...
The Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health enables students to understand the underlying social, political and behavioral forces that shape health status. Our students also learn how to assess critically factors that contribute to the health of populations, integrating real-world experience...
Faculty Advisors: Martha Livingston (PH), Diana Papademas (SY) This minor is intended to give students an opportunity to explore the role of government in addressing current issues of public concern.
Faculty Advisors: Martha Livingston (Public Health), B. Runi Mukherji (Psychology), Rachel Kalish (Sociology)
The Sociology Major has five components. Basic courses provide students who have no training in sociology with a general introduction to the discipline. Foundation courses provide necessary grounding in sociological theory, analysis and methods. Cross-cultural component courses which will enhance...
The B.S. in Sociology degree program requires students to complete 60 credits in the liberal arts, rather than the 90-credit requirement of the campus' B.A. in Sociology offering. In practical terms, this means that students with many credits from technical schools, teacher education programs or...
With a foundation in Spanish language, the Spanish Language, Hispanic Literature and Culture degree permits students to focus on Hispanic culture, especially literature and history, on both sides of the Atlantic. With some additional courses in Teacher Education, the major earns a provisional...
The Spanish minor consists of 20 credits. Up to two courses may be transferred from another institution. Students must take a sequence of four ML language courses and choose one survey course in English, in either literature or cultural studies, from a number of HI, PEL or ML options. The objectives...
The M.S. in Students with Disabilities (all grades) provides a pathway for initial certification in Special Education in New York State for educators in grades Pre-K through 12. Visit CampuS Apply Now Request Information
Teachers equipped to instruct students with diverse learning needs possess the potential to profoundly influence the lives of children, no matter the grade level. Visit CampuS Apply Now Request Information
The Master of Science in Taxation program is geared to meet the increasing complexity of the accounting field and its critical impact on the effective management of business, financial, industrial, governmental and nonprofit organizations. The program provides a framework of conceptual, technical...
The Microcredential in The Foundations of Cognitive Neuropsychology will provide students with detailed knowledge in the anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system and the molecular and biochemical basis of cognitive higher-order cortical information processing as it relates to typical and...
Professional accounting instruction. Affordable SUNY tuition. The convenience of online study. You’ll experience each of those benefits as a student of the Online M.S. in Accounting program at SUNY Old Westbury. The degree program's objective goes beyond technical training in accounting practices...
The Visual Arts minor consists of a core of three required courses (12 credits) and three elective options: art history; fine art; or electronic media for a total of 20 credits. The minor is intended to serve two different groups of students. Students pursuing a liberal arts major would take the...