University of Minnesota Duluth
Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
CSD Graduate Student Handbook
AY 2024 - 2025
Summer 2024: Updates in progress for AY 2024-2025
About the CSD Graduate Student Handbook
The purpose of the CSD Graduate Student Handbook is to provide students in the CSD Graduate Program with information to support their successful completion of the program. This information is a supplement to the UMD Graduate Student Handbook available through the UMD Graduate School.
The CSD Graduate Handbook is a living document. Policies and procedures in the handbook are subject to change at the discretion of the UMD Graduate School or UMD Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Students are responsible for following the current handbook.
The information in this handbook and other University catalogs, publications, or announcements is subject to change without notice. University offices can provide current information about possible changes.
Important resources:
UMD Graduate Education Faculty Role List (for picking your Plan B committee)
Navigating this Handbook
At the top of this site in the upper right corner you will see section headers:
Home
Graduate Program Review
First Year
Second Year
Resources
Hover on the section header and you will get a drop-down window of sub-pages.
Click on the subpages for details, resources, and links.
What's Inside: Headers and Subpages
Use the links at the top of the page to go to the various sections of the CSD Graduate Handbook.
Graduate Program Overview
What's Inside
CSD and the Graduate School
CSD Mission Outcomes, and Standards
Curriculum Overview (includes Plan B Guidebook)
Assessment of Learning
First Year
What's Inside
Fall First Year
Spring First Year
Summer First Year
Second Year
What's Inside
Fall Second Year
Spring Second Year
Resources
CRC Database
eTablet Program & Apps Requests
CSD Graduate Plan B Guidebook
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