Communication Sciences and Disorders Major, Bachelor of Arts (BA)
This program is on a semester schedule. Lower division courses (offered on the quarter schedule) must be taken prior to entering this major.
World Language Requirement: Two years of a single high school world language or one year of a single college-level world language is required.
Grade Requirements
- Students must earn and maintain an overall EWU institutional grade point average ≥2.75 as well as a grade point average ≥2.75 in all CMSD coursework to be retained in the program.
- If a student’s total EWU institutional GPA falls below 2.75 in a single semester, the student is placed on academic probation and has one semester to raise their GPA to ≥2.75 or they are dismissed from the program.
- To graduate with the BA degree, the student must earn a grade ≥C- in each of the courses within the major.
- Earning a grade <C- for any given course requires that the student repeat the course. If the course is a prerequisite for a higher-level course, the student is not allowed to enroll in the higher-level course until a grade ≥C- has been earned in the prerequisite course.
| INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY | 3 |
| PHONETICS | 3 |
| SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES | 3 |
| ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH PRODUCTION | 3 |
| LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT | 3 |
| LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT | 3 |
| SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS | 3 |
| HEARING AND HEARING DISORDERS | 3 |
| NEUROANATOMY | 3 |
| PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY | 3 |
| ASSESSMENT OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE | 3 |
| INTERVENTION FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS | 3 |
| LANGUAGE AND LITERACY | 3 |
| NEUROGENIC COMMUNICATION DISORDERS | 3 |
| SERVICE LEARNING I FOR COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS | 1 |
| CLINICAL METHODS | 3 |
| MULTICULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS | 3 |
| INTRODUCTION TO AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION | 3 |
| AURAL REHABILITATION | 2 |
| SEMINAR | 3 |
| SENIOR CAPSTONE: PERSPECTIVES IN SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY | 3 |
| Total Credits | 60 |
University Competencies and Proficiencies
English
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning
Placement and Clearance
Prior Learning/Sources of Credit AP, CLEP, IB
General Education Requirements (GER)
- Minimum Credits—180 cumulative credit hours
- 60 upper-division credits (300 level or above)
- 45 credits in residence (attendance) at Eastern, with at least 15 upper-division credits in major in residence at Eastern
- Minimum Cumulative GPA ≥2.0
Breadth Area Core Requirements (BACR)
Humanities and Arts
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
University Graduation Requirements (UGR)
Diversity Course List
World Language (for Bachelor of Arts)
Global Studies Course List
Minor or Certificate
Senior Capstone Course List
Application for Graduation (use EagleNET) must be made at least two terms in advance of the term expected to graduate (undergraduate and post-baccalaureate).
Use the Catalog Archives to determine two important catalog years.
- The catalog in effect at the student's first term of current matriculation is used to determine BACR (Breadth Area Core Requirements) and UGR (Undergraduate Graduation Requirements).
- The catalog in effect at the time the student declares a major or minor is used to determine the program requirements.
Students who earn a BA in Communication Sciences and Disorders from EWU should be able to:
- demonstrate basic knowledge of hearing disorders assessment;
- demonstrate basic knowledge of hearing disorders treatment;
- demonstrate basic knowledge of speech-language pathology assessment;
- demonstrate basic knowledge of speech-language pathology treatment;
- describe the typical processes of hearing;
- describe the typical processes of language;
- describe the typical processes of speech;
- describe the typical processes of swallowing.