Undergraduate Curriculum

About the Minor

Requirements are 15 hours of specified course work, nine of which are advanced. Nine semester hours must be in residence of which 6 must be advanced. Students who are completing a minor in Communication Sciences and Disorders must earn a minimum grade of C in each minor course.

The Undergraduate Advisor must approve the proposed minor. Students can only take the courses that have been agreed upon by the advisor and the student. Students will be dropped from courses not in their plan. Neither the department nor the instructor will be responsible for tuition refunds when dropped from a course the student was not eligible for.

Students can NOT take courses in the department not on their plan.

Required courses: (9 hours – 6 advanced).

All students pursuing the minor take the following courses. (Read course descriptions.)

Phys 2340 – Science of Sound
COMD 3381 – Audiology
COMD 3301 – Deaf Culture
Choice of the following [You must choose ONLY one of the pairs of courses.]
- COMD 2338 Phonetics and COMD 3371 Phonology
  OR
- COMD 2339 Speech, Hearing, and Language Development of the Normal Child and COMD 3383 Language Disorders

Required Courses of all students pursuing Minor	COURSE TITLE
PHYS 2340	SCIENCE OF SOUND
COMD 3381	AUDIOLOGY
COMD 3301	DEAF CULTURE
Student must chose one of the following pair of courses
COMD 2338 and COMD 3371	Phonetics AND Phonological disorders
COMD 2339 and COMD 3383	Speech language and hearing development AND Language Disorders
TOTAL HOURS	15

For more information:

Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders
100 Clinical Research Services
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-6018
Phone: 713-743-2893