CSD at MU - required courses for the BHS degree

Required Courses for the Bachelor of Health Science Degree (BHS)* in CSD
(MU is renumbering all undergraduate and graduate courses; the first number listed will be used through summer semester, 2004, and the second number will be effective starting fall semester, 2004)

General Education Requirements
Humanities (9 hours)
-Students must enroll in approved humanities courses to receive credit.

Social Studies (9 hours)
-American History (History 3/1100 or 4/1200) (3 hours)
-American Government (Political Science 1/1100 or 11/1700) (3 hours)
-General Psychology (Psychology 1/1000) (3 hours)

Communication Skills (6 hours plus 2 writing intensive courses*)
-Exposition and Argumentation (English 20/1000) (3 hours)
-Speech Communication (Communication 75/1200 or 275/3575) (3 hours)
*(the writing intensive course requirement for CSD students will be satisfied in the junior and senior year, through CSD 202/3020 and CSD 302/4020)

Sciences (8-9 hours)
-Choose from Physics or Chemistry (Physics 15/1150, 3 hours) (Physics 21/1210, 4 hours) or (Chemistry 15/1100, 3 hours or Chemistry 31/1310, 2 hours)
-Biology with a lab (Biology 1/1010 and 2/1020, 3 + 2 hours) (Biology 42/1500, 5 hours)

Education Courses (for partial fulfillment of the Missouri teacher certification) (12 hours total)
-Child Psychology (Psychology 170/2410) (3 hours)
-Introduction to Special Education (Special Ed. 312/4305 or 311/4300) (3 hours)
-Counseling (Ed and Counseling Psych 323/4150)(Special Ed 332/4330)(3 hours)
-Sociology of Education (355/4410 or EL 360/7301) (3 hours)

Other Courses (6 hours)
-One Statistics course (Statistics 25/1200 or 31/1300 or Education & Counseling Psychology A354/4600) (3 hours)
-English or Linguistics 340/4600, Structure of American English (3 hours)

Communication Science and Disorders - Required Courses (44 hours)
20/1060 Human Language (3 hours)
120/2120 Survey of Communicative Disorders (3 hours)
201/3010 American Phonetics (3 hours)
202/3020 Normal Language Development (3 hours) (writing intensive)
210/3210 Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism (3 hours)
230/3230 Hearing Science (3 hours)
243/4430 Neurophysiology (3 hours)
302/4020 Language Disorders in Children (3 hours) (writing intensive)
320/4320 Disorders of Phonology and Articulation (3 hours)
321/4210 Disorders of Fluency and Voice (3 hours)
324/4900 (Observation in Communicative Disorders (1 + 1 hour)
330/4330 Introduction to Audiology (3 hours)
334/4340 Aural Rehabilitation (3 hours)
342/4420 Reading and Language Disorders in Children (3 hours)
343/4500 Issues in Professional Practice (3 hours)

All pre-CSD and professional CSD majors must meet with an advisor in the Department for advising. For an appointment or information on our curriculum, please contact Ruth Crozier at 573-884-2329, or by way of e-mail at .

All MU students must have at least 120 credit hours to graduate; elective coursework will bring the total up to 120.