Registration permission: Tuesday, December 15th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Please note: This date will be the only day COMSC will be granting permission for Spring '10 non-degree courses. An e-mail notification will be sent to all students on COMSC's email list serve on December 3rd. Candidates for these courses must have a minimum of a 3.3 undergraduate GPA to qualify for permission. If you are not on the e-mail list, contact Joanne Johnson.

AuD Open House for prospective Audiology students

Date: Tuesday, November 24th, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Location: The Graduate Center at 5th Avenue and 34th Street in Room C198

Please be aware that COMSC designed this website to answer all questions any prospective student may have. Typical one-on-one advisement is not available at this time except briefly when obtaining permission to take non-matriculate coursework. Due to time constraints and the large influx of questions, all inquiries requesting a meeting with a department advisor will be referred back to this website.

Welcome to the Communication Sciences Program (COMSC). The COMSC Program is housed in the School of Health Sciences at the Brookdale Health Science campus of Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY).

Communication Sciences historically covers the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Both disciplines are concerned with communication processes of all people across the lifespan. Graduate degrees are required to work in either field.

Hunter College offers a curriculum through the School of Health Science leading to a Master of Science (MS) degree in Speech-Language Pathology. The following pages of this website will help answer questions for prospective students interested in the MS degree.

Entry level degree for the field of Audiology is the Doctor of Audiology (AuD). The Graduate Center administers the AuD CUNY Consortium, with faculty teaching from Hunter College's COMSC Program, Brooklyn College, and The Graduate Center. Students interested in applying to this program must do so through The Graduate Center Admissions Office.