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2019-2020 General Catalog 
    
2019-2020 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Communication Disorders, B.A.


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Communication Disorders


CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS

SEMESTER 1: “C” or better in ENGL 1001 .
SEMESTER 2: First course in Foreign Language Sequence.
SEMESTER 3: COMD 2050 ; Second course in Foreign Language Sequence; Admission to the College.
SEMESTER 4: COMD 2081 ; COMD 3150 .
SEMESTER 5: COMD 4250 ; ENGL 2000 .

Admission to a curriculum in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders requires that a student be admissible to the College of Humanities & Social Sciences and have a GPA of 2.50 or above on all work taken within the LSU System and on all work taken overall. Majors in Communication Disorders are required to take the following courses: BIOL 2160 , EXST 2201 , COMD 2050 , COMD 2081 , COMD 3150 , COMD 4153 , COMD 4190 , COMD 4250 , COMD 4380 , COMD 4381 , COMD 4382 , and COMD 4383 . Prospective students who have not attained a 2.50 average may petition the Department’s Committee of Undergraduate Advisors for a waiver of the 2.50 requirement based on special circumstances.

Consult “Degree Requirements of the College ” in this section of the catalog for specific instructions regarding electives and the general education life and physical sciences, literature, mathematics, and social sciences requirements.

Semester 1


Total Semester Hours: 16


Semester 2


 CRITICAL: First course in Foreign Language Sequence.

  • General Education course - Humanities (3)
  • Second Course in Foreign Language Sequence (4)
  • General Education course - Natural Sciences (3)1
  • General Education course - Social Sciences (3)
  • Approved Elective (0-2)

Total Semester Hours: 13-15


Semester 3


Total Semester Hours: 16-15


Total Semester Hours: 17-16


Semester 5


Total Semester Hours: 13


Total Semester Hours: 16


Semester 7


Total Semester Hours: 14


Semester 8


  •  Approved Electives (15)

Total Semester Hours: 15


120 Total Sem. Hrs.


1 - For students planning to attend an accredited graduate program for Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology, we strongly recommend taking BIOL 1001  & BIOL 1002  plus one of the following: PHSC 1001  or PHYS 2001  or CHEM 1001 . If two course sequence is taken in the natural sciences, the additional three-hour course must be taken from the life sciences, and vice versa. 

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