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Advising | Minor in Communication Sciences & Disorders

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Program Information

Career Information

  • A prepares you for careers in education, medicine, dentistry, and allied health, including occupational therapy, physical therapy, nursing, physician assistant, music therapist, psychologist, audiologist, or speech-language pathology.
  • The provides the preparatory coursework for application to the °ÅÀÖÊÓÆµ master's program in speech-language pathology.

Declaring a minor in Communication Sciences & Disorders

  • °ÅÀÖÊÓÆµ students declare minors by the end of junior year or at 60 earned credits, after a major has been declared.
  • Current students interested in Communication Sciences & Disorders should contact Dr. Jill Dolata (dolata@pacificu.edu) as early as possible.

Pre-Speech Language Pathology Pathway through the CSD Minor

  • Any student interested in applying for graduate programs in audiology or speech-language pathology is strongly encouraged to meet with the undergraduate program advisor Dr. Kerry Mandulak as early as possible.
  • Students who apply to graduate programs have additional prerequisites beyond the CSD minor. These requirements include one course in each of the following areas: 
    • Statistics
    • One biological science
    • One physical (chemistry or physics) science
    • One social or behavioral science.
  • Please contact Dr. Kerry Mandulak to make an appointment for advising, and to review sample plans for sequencing courses in the minor.

Course Planning for Communication Sciences & Disorders

  • Courses to prioritize if students are interested in the minor:    
    • CSD 200, 204 and 209

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