UG
CSCD 2010: Introduction to Communicative Disorders
3 credits
Disorders of speech, language, and audition; emphasis on recognition, causation, and principles of management.
Undergraduate
Communication Sciences and Disorders, B.S.
When you graduate with a Communication Sciences and Disorders degree at Ole Miss, you improve a person’s ability to communicate and improve their foundation for life.
About the Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders
A degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders offers many exciting opportunities to serve your community. Students that complete a BS in communication science disorders will help individuals with speech, language, or hearing disabilities.
CSD majors learn the anatomy and physiology of speech, language, and auditory processes, and get hands-on experience assessing and managing disorders in speech, language, and hearing.
Coursework will prepare you to work with a variety of communication disorders across the age-span.
The BSCSD is a pre-professional degree.
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Program Information
Degree
B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Emphases
Speech-Language Pathology ;
Audiology
Required Credit Hours
124
Program Type
Major
Minor
School
Duration
4 years
Explore the Minors the Department of CSD Has to Offer
Communication Sciences and Disorders is an excellent major, but there are also two exciting minors students can choose from as well! Learn more about our minors below.
The minor in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) is offered by the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Applied Sciences.
The minor can complement many academic majors and provide students from various majors such as allied health care, biomedical engineering, education, general studies, gerontology, legal studies, psychology, psycholinguistics, recreational therapy, special education, journalism, and neuroscience, basic knowledge related to communication disorders.
The CSD minor may help students from various majors become better equipped to support individuals with communication disorders.
To complete the minor in CSD, students must earn a C or better in all 18 credits. The communication sciences and disorders minor is offered fully online.
The ASL Interpreting minor is an undergraduate, in-person minor. The minor includes three 4-credit courses and a 3-credit practicum totaling 15 hours of undergraduate-level coursework. Courses are offered in fall/spring/summer semesters. The courses in the minor will prepare students to become qualified interpreters for the Deaf. Learners can complete the minor in 20-24 months.
Students must apply for the minor in American Sign Language interpreting. Before applying, the applicant must complete 12 hours of prerequisites or have commensurate skills determined by a level II on the American Sign Language Proficiency Interview (ASLPI) given by course instructors.
A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for courses counted toward the minor. No course may be repeated more than once, and no more than two courses may be repeated and applied toward the minor. In instances of repeated courses, the second grade will be used to determine eligibility to graduate. The time limit for completing the ASL minor is two years.
What courses will you take to earn a Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Here are a few of the required courses for a Communication Sciences and Disorders degree.
UG
CSCD 2050: Anatomy and Physiology
3 credits
Anatomical and physiological bases of speech, language, and auditory processes.
UG
CSCD 2110: Introduction to Phonetics
3 credits
Introduction to the principles of articulatory phonetics and the narrow and wide transcription of normal and abnormal speech
CSD Major Career Outlook
$95k
Median income for Speech-Language Pathologists in 2024.
60K
Median income for ESL teachers in 2024.
59K
Jobs for ASL interpreters in 2024.
81K
Jobs for Audiologists in 2022.
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