Communicative Disorders, M.S. CDP

This graduate program is administered by the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders .

PLEASE NOTE: This graduate program will be renamed to Communication Sciences and Disorders, M.S., CDP once Graduate Council approval is obtained in Fall 2015. Until this approval is obtained, all graduate courses will be listed with a prefix of COMD while all undergraduate courses will be listed with a prefix of CSD.

In speech-language pathology, you must take a comprehensive examination the semester before you begin a 15-credit clinical semester. In the clinical semester, you are assigned full time for one academic term to a hospital, clinic, school, etc. to gain professional experience in the type of setting that most interests you. You may complete a thesis in lieu of taking comprehensive examinations as a culminating experience. The thesis must be completed prior to graduation.

In audiology you will culminate your graduate program with a capstone project during the third year and a full-time, clinical externship during the entire fourth year.