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.
Note: 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.
| Required Courses | ||
| CMSD 301S | INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY | 3 |
| CMSD 304S | PHONETICS | 3 |
| CMSD 320S | SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES | 3 |
| CMSD 321S | ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH PRODUCTION | 3 |
| CMSD 331S | LANGUAGE AND LITERACY DEVELOPMENT | 4 |
| CMSD 357S | LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT | 3 |
| CMSD 358S | SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS | 3 |
| CMSD 371S | HEARING AND HEARING DISORDERS | 3 |
| CMSD 422S | NEUROANATOMY | 3 |
| CMSD 437S | PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY | 3 |
| CMSD 441S | ASSESSMENT OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE | 2 |
| CMSD 442S | INTERVENTION FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS | 3 |
| CMSD 451S | NEUROGENIC COMMUNICATION DISORDERS | 3 |
| CMSD 461S | CLINICAL METHODS | 2 |
| CMSD 466S | MULTICULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS | 2 |
| CMSD 473S | AURAL REHABILITATION | 2 |
| Required Senior Capstone | ||
| CMSD 490S | SENIOR CAPSTONE: PERSPECTIVES IN SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY | 3 |
| Required Health Science Minor- must complete HSCI minor courses | 12-13 | |
| Required Supporting Courses–students majoring in CMSD must complete coursework in public speaking, biological sciences, physical sciences, statistics and the social/behavioral sciences. These courses should be taken prior to entering the CMSD major. | ||
| Total Credits | 60-61 | |
Plan of Study
The following plan of study is for a student with zero credits. Individual students may have different factors such as: credit through transfer work, Advanced Placement, Running Start, or any other type of college-level coursework that requires an individual plan.
Courses may be offered in different terms and not all courses are offered every term, checking the academic schedule is paramount in keeping an individual plan current. There may be some courses that have required prerequisites not listed in the plan, review the course descriptions for information. Students should connect with an advisor to ensure they are on track to graduate.
All Undergraduate students are required to meet the Undergraduate Degree Requirements.
This major requires the completion of the World Language requirement. Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree must complete two years of a single language in high school or one year of a single language in college.
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Quarter | Credits | Winter Quarter | Credits | Spring Quarter | Credits |
| ENGL 101 | 5 | ENGL 201 | 5 | PSYC 100 (Social Sciences BACR 1) | 5 |
| MATH 121 | 5 | BIOL 100 (Natural Sciences BACR 1) | 5 | Natural Science BACR 21 | 5 |
| World Language 1 | 5 | World Language 2 | 5 | World Language 3 | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Second Year | |||||
| Fall Quarter | Credits | Winter Quarter | Credits | Spring Quarter | Credits |
| CMST 201 | 5 | Humanities and Arts BACR 21 | 5 | Social Science BACR 21 | 5 |
| CHEM 100 | 5 | Diversity - graduation requirement1 | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| Humanities and Arts BACR 11 | 5 | Global Studies - graduation requirement1 | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Total Credits 90 | |||||
| Third Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester | Credits | Spring Semester | Credits |
| CMSD 301S | 3 | CMSD 320S | 3 |
| CMSD 304S | 3 | CMSD 357S | 3 |
| CMSD 321S | 3 | CMSD 358S | 3 |
| CMSD 331S | 4 | CMSD 371S | 3 |
| HSCI 400S | 3 | CMSD 441S | 2 |
| HSCI 402S | 3 | ||
| 16 | 17 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall Semester | Credits | Spring Semester | Credits |
| CMSD 422S | 3 | CMSD 442S | 3 |
| CMSD 437S | 3 | CMSD 451S | 3 |
| CMSD 461S | 2 | CMSD 466S | 2 |
| CMSD 473S | 2 | CMSD 490S | 3 |
| HSCI 488S | 3 | HSCI 487S | 3 |
| 13 | 14 | ||
| Total Credits 60 | |||
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University Graduation Requirements (UGR) and Breadth Area Course Requirements (BACR) courses may be less than 5 credits and additional credits may be required to reach the required 180 total credits needed to graduate. Students should connect with an advisor to ensure they are on track to graduate.
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 you expect to graduate (undergraduate and post-baccalaureate).
Use the Catalog Archives to determine two important catalog years.
Requirements in Degree Works are based on these two catalog years:
- The catalog in effect at the student's first term of current matriculation is used to determine BACR (Breadth Area Credit 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; PLO#8
- demonstrate basic knowledge of hearing disorders treatment; PLO#7
- demonstrate basic knowledge of speech-language pathology assessment; PLO#6
- demonstrate basic knowledge of speech-language pathology treatment; PLO#5
- describe the typical process of swallowing; PLO#4
- describe the typical processes of hearing; PLO#3
- describe the typical processes of language; PLO#2
- describe the typical processes of speech. PLO#1