We are part of a 23-campus system that includes 11 campuses that have Master's degree programs in communicative sciences and disorders. Charter prohibits the State University system from directly conferring the doctoral degree. Our particular campus has approximately 14,000 students and 600 faculty. Our communicative sciences and disorders program is housed in a freestanding department within the School of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences. We have five full time faculty positions and three permanent half-time clinical supervisors.
Additional supervision is contracted part-time as needed.
We admit about 25 students each year to the graduate program. Our overall enrollment is about 150 students in both undergraduate and graduate programs. In most respects this course is similar to those offered in other communicative sciences and disorders programs. Students make class presentations of the chapters from the text prior to the examination. However, from the beginning of the course and concurrent with the text review, planning begins for the student research projects.