Stony Brook offers a variety of Graduate Certificate Programs. Graduate certificates allow you to round out your profile with additional skills and competencies that make you more employable. A full list of graduate certificate programs can be found here (search for “graduate certificate”):
https://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/graduatebulletin/current/academicprograms
The most popular graduate certificate program among our PhD students is the Data and Computational Science certificate hosted by the IACS:
https://iacs.stonybrook.edu/opportunities/certificates/cdcs
This is a 17 credit program, but it includes many courses that you might want to take anyways: computational linguistics courses in our department, journalism courses on outreach and public engagement, the NLP course in the Department of Computer Science, the IACS introduction to data science, and much more. For computational students in our PhD program, adding this certificate requires very little extra work. If you have specific questions about the certificate, reach out to the program director of our MA in Computational Linguistics.
Graduate certificates are the principled exception to the rule that G5 students cannot take classes. If you are enrolled in a graduate certificate, then you are allowed to take any and all classes required for this certificate. It does not matter whether you are G3, G4 or G5. However, if you are enrolled in more credits than is covered by your Graduate Tuition Scholarship (12 credits for G3 students, 9 credits for G4 and G5), you will be billed for the extra credits.