APPLICATION FOR GRADUATE STUDY
Department of Communicative Disorders & Deaf Studies
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA 93740‐8022
(559) 278‐5187 (FAX) (559) 278‐2423 (VOICE) / (559) 278‐2856 (TTY)
Please type in the information and print the application. Do not submit a handwritten application.
Name
CSUF Student ID #
Preferred Email Address:
Date
Phone:
I am applying for admission in:
G
Deaf Education G
Speech‐Language
Pathology
Beginning in
G Fall G Spring
(year)
Educational Background
School Awarding Bachelors Degree
Major
Year Degree Awarded (Expected or Earned)
For Deaf Education Applicants Only
9 I have applied or am applying to a
credential program in the Kremen School of
Education. If you check this box, contact
Graduate Admissions to have your status
changed to graduate student, should you be
admitted to the DE program.
If your undergraduate major was not Deaf Education or Deaf Studies, or Speech‐Language Pathology,
indicate the university where you took the undergraduate courses for this major.
Please list the universities/colleges that will be submitting official transcripts:
__________________________________________
________________________________________
__________________________________________
________________________________________
__________________________________________
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Please list the names and organizational affiliations of the three (3) people you have asked for letters of
recommendation:
Name ____________________________________
Affiliation _______________________________
Name ____________________________________
Affiliation _______________________________
Name ____________________________________
Affiliation _______________________________
When you applied to the university through CSUMentor, you were emailed a confirmation. Please attach
a copy of that emailed confirmation to this application. This application will not be processed without
the emailed confirmation.
Graduate Application 8‐15‐2014.docx (8/15/14, 1:45 pm)
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See Instructions on Second Page!
This application process is only for the graduate program. If you need to take the prerequisite courses for
the program, please contact the Graduate Coordinator at sskelton@csufresno.edu.
Completed application requires the following be sent to the department by the department deadline in a
single packet:
1.
2.
3.
A typed letter of intent must accompany your application for Graduate Study. Your letter
of intent to the Graduate Committee should include:
a.
Explanation of your interest in your chosen discipline
b.
Previous experience, paid or volunteer, in your discipline or related fields
(emphasis should be placed on human service(s) and/or educational experience)
c.
Reasons for pursuing graduate studies
d.
Future goals: Whether your orientation is clinical, administrative, or if you have
research and/or doctoral program goals
e.
Goals specific to ethnically diverse (e.g., multilingual/multicultural) or special
needs populations.
Departmental Application
Three letters of recommendation (if possible, these should be from persons within the communicative
disorders professions) using the departmental recommendation form and sealed by the author in an envelope
with his or her signature across the sealed envelope flap.
THE DEADLINES FOR SUBMITTING THE DEPARTMENTAL APPLICATION ARE THE SAME AS THE
DEADLINES FOR THE UNIVERSITY.
Please note that the processing of transcripts and GRE scores by the university can take over a month.
These documents are only provided to the department online and must be available to the department
for review by the deadline stated above.
Mail YOUR COMPLETED PACKET to
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Communicative Disorders & Deaf Studies
California State University, Fresno
5310 N. Campus Dr. M/S PH80
Fresno CA 93740‐8022
Admission results will be emailed to your Fresno State email.
Graduate Application 8‐15‐2014.docx (8/15/14, 1:45 pm)
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