Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities

The Center for Developmental Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities at the College of Staten Island offers a broad interdisciplinary program leading to the Master of Science degree. Courses integrate relevant subject matter in the areas of neuroscience, biology, chemistry, and psychology and students have a unique opportunity to explore both neuro-scientific and applied aspects of the normally and abnormally developing brain, as well as recent advances in the cognitive sciences.

Neuroscience Master of Science Degree | Double Counting Policy

Undergraduate matriculated CSI Biology majors at the College of Staten Island who have accumulated a minimum of 90 credits with a 3.3 GPA are eligible to apply for admission and conditional acceptance into the Neuroscience Master of Science graduate program. If accepted, students who meet the criteria below may be granted permission to take up to three CSI 700-level Neuroscience (NSM) graduate courses at the undergraduate tuition rate to be counted toward their bachelor’s degree (to satisfy their 300- or 400-level elective requirements) and their Neuroscience Master’s degree. All graduate courses in the MS in Neuroscience can be taken as double-counting courses.

Criteria:

• Current enrollment in bachelor’s degree in Biology at the College of Staten Island and successful completion of three years of study with 90 or more earned credits.

• Cumulative GPA 3.3 or above.

• Permission from the course instructor, the coordinator of the Neuroscience MS program, and the Biology Department chairperson.

• Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a full-time College of Staten Island Biology faculty under whom the applicant has studied.

• Application for admission and conditional acceptance into the Neuroscience graduate program.