The curriculum provides the student with an understanding of normal and abnormal human speech, language, and hearing, and, when combined with the required research and methodology courses, the major prepares the students for graduate work.

The major requires eleven courses in the department, including Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders, Phonetic Transcription and Phonology, Language Development in Children, Audiology, Auditory Rehabilitation, and Human Anatomy and Physiology of Speech, and two electives from within the department or in related disciplines. Students should take the research methodology course before the end of the junior year and demonstrate proficiency in public speaking.