All incoming freshmen and transfer students will be assigned an advisor with the College of Arts and Sciences when they begin taking courses.
This major requires students to be of sophomore standing or above, 31 earned credit hours, before enrolling in any CD courses.
Communicative Disorders advisors will be assigned by the department each semester as students reach sophomore standing. We will contact you via your @crimson.ua.edu email account with information about who your academic advisor will be. We send out a department email to inform you of when formal advising will begin and how to sign up for an appointment time.
Advising Resources
- Advising and Degree Works Overview Video
- Video Table of Contents with Timestamps
- Advising and Degree Works Overview Presentation
Advising Worksheet
We are using a DocuSign form to electronically complete and sign your advising worksheet. Below are a few resources that will help you prepare to complete your advising worksheet.
Once you have all of your information ready use the link below and email listed for your assigned CD advisor only to start your advising worksheet.
DocuSign CD Advising Worksheet
Jennifer Baggett: jennifer.m.baggett@ua.edu
Kayce Hinton: kayce.hinton@ua.edu
Amanda Mennen: amanda.mennen@ua.edu
Laura Moss: lmoss@ua.edu
Mary Ray-Allen: mary.ray-allen@ua.edu
Sara Shirley: scshirley@ua.edu
If you have additional questions about advising or the undergraduate program, email Sara Shirley, Director of Undergraduate Studies, at scshirley@ua.edu.

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