Communication Disorders Comprehensive Major -
Bachelor of Science in Education
ED BSE 2903
Note: Licensure and teacher certification require a Master of Science in Education
Degree with a Speech-Language Pathology Major.
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education and endorsement
- English Language minimum = 9 including:
- ENG 101GS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours
- ENG 102GS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
- SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech
Communication - 3 hours
- Humanities minimum = 12 including:
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 210GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 211GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 212GS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
- HIST 215GS, Introduction to Latin America - 3
hours
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 250GS, American History - 3 hours
- HIST 251GS, American History - 3 hours
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9 including:
- Take any Economic Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any Political Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- PSY 203GS, General Psychology - 3 hours
- Personal Development minimum = 3
- PE 160GS, Healthful Living - 3 hours
- Professional Sequence = 14
- Students must apply for admission to all Teacher Education
programs.
- Take all of the following:
- PTE 200, Developmental Behavior - 3 hours
- PTE 300, Learning and Evaluation - 3 hours (Taken
concurrently with PTE 390)
- PTE 390B-01, Pre-Student Teaching Field
Experience (Elementary school placement) - 1 hour (Taken concurrently with PTE 300)
- PTE 464, Contemporary Issues in Education - 2
hours (Prereq: PTE 200, PTE 300 and admission to Teacher Education)
- ELED 402, Survey of Reading Principles - 1 hour
- SPED 333, Serving Individuals with Disabilities
in Integrated Settings - 3 hours
- (Students holding a current Nebraska teaching certificate, see advisor for hour
requirements.)
- Take 1 course from:
- PTE 401, Multicultural Education - 1 hour
- FORL 401, Multicultural Understanding - 1 hour
- Major = 55
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 114
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 11
- Minimum total hours required for BSE in Communication Disorders Comprehensive Major =
114
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- A. Communications Disorders Core Requirements (21 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- CDIS 215, Introduction to Phonetics - 3 hours
- CDIS 336, Anatomy & Physiology of the
Speech Mechanism - 3 hours
- CDIS 352, Normal and Disordered Language: 6-12
Years - 3 hours
- ENG 304, Grammar I - 3 hours
- PSY 230GS, Human Development - 3 hours
- Take one of the following:
- PSY 313, Physiological Psychology - 3 hours
- PSY 430, Memory and Cognition - 3 hours
- PSY 470, Neuropsychology - 3 hours
- Take one of the following three options:
- Take 1 course:
- CDIS 250, Introduction to Speech and Hearing
Science - 3 hours
- OR take 1 course:
- BIOL 215GS, Human Physiology - 4 hours
- OR take 2 courses:
- BIOL 225, Anatomy and Physiology - 4 hours
(Prereq: CHEM 145 or CHEM 150 or CHEM
160)
- BIOL 226, Anatomy and Physiology - 4 hours
- B. Speech/Language Pathology-Special Professional Courses (28 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- CDIS 210, Survey of Communication Disorders - 3
hours
- CDIS 311, Orientation to Practicum - 3 hours
- CDIS 354, Early Communicative Development - 3
hours
- CDIS 356, Communication Disorders of the
Adolescent - 3 hours
- CDIS 362, Remediation of Articulation Disorders
- 3 hours
- CDIS 413, American Sign Language I - 3 hours
- CDIS 418, Diagnosis of Communication Disorders
- 3 hours
- CDIS 485, Fluency Disorders - 3 hours
- Take 4 to 6 hours from:
- CDIS 480A,B,C, Clinical Practicum in
Speech/Language Pathology - 4-6 hours
- C. Audiology-Professional Specialized Courses (6 hours required)
- Take the following:
- CDIS 410, Introduction to Audiology - 3 hours
- CDIS 415, Audiologic Rehabilitation - 3 hours
11 May 2006
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