<p>My D will be starting as a freshman at UP and wants to major in communications disorders. How hard are the required university classes and…if you know about communications disorders program that would be great.</p>
<p>Name some classes and I can try to give you details on them. For almost any BIOL/BMB/PHYS/CHEM courses I can give you a fairly educated opinion on the difficulty. Random courses, maybe maybe not. CSD-specific courses, unfortunately I have no experience with them.</p>
<p>One way to get a feel for the perceived difficulty of courses would be</p>
<p>1) find who teaches a course of interest at [Schedule</a> of Courses - Main Course Search](<a href=“http://soc.our.psu.edu/]Schedule”>http://soc.our.psu.edu/)</p>
<p>2) look the professor up on [Rate</a> My Professors - Find and rate your professor, campus and more - RateMyProfessors.com](<a href=“http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5DRate”>http://www.ratemyprofessors.com)</p>
<p>3) find comments for that professor relevant to the course of interest, read them</p>
<p>This is non-scientific of course, but I’ve gotten a lot of useful advice on courses in this manner.</p>
<p>They have an excellent department and although the curriculum is rigorous…they have professors who are leaders in the field, so you will be well prepared to get into a good graduate program . A graduate degree is required for certification as a Speech-Language Pathologist.</p>
<p>From what I understand, courses in communications disorders arent hard at all.</p>
<p>I would disagree that the courses aren’t hard…I think they are fairly challenging. In most programs you have several pre-requisite courses which deal with anatomy and physiology as well as behavioral psychology and neurology.</p>