Required Courses for the Au.D. Program
All students must complete the required core courses listed below. Students may be waived from one or more of the required courses only if comparable course work has been completed at another institution or previously at this institution.
COMM-DIS 520: Counseling in Communication Disorders
COMM-DIS 530: Neurological Bases of Speech, Language and Hearing
COMM-DIS 630: Graduate Research in Communication Disorders
COMM-DIS 640: Advanced Diagnostic Audiology
COMM-DIS 641: Advanced Hearing Rehabilitation
COMM-DIS 642: Hearing Aids and Amplification
COMM-DIS 643: Hearing Conservation and Industrial Audiology
COMM-DIS 645: Theories of Hearing
COMM-DIS 646: Assessment/Rehabilitation of Balance Disorders and Tinnitus
COMM-DIS 647: Implantable Auditory Prostheses
COMM-DIS 650: Pediatric Audiology
COMM-DIS 651: Electrophysiological Procedures in Audiology
COMM-DIS 691G: Seminar in Auditory Processing
COMM-DIS 691I: Seminar: Clinical Audiology I
COMM-DIS 692A: Medical Audiology
COMM-DIS 692I: Seminar: Clinical Audiology II
COMM-DIS 697A: Instrumentation in Audiology
In addition, Au.D. students must complete the following non-departmental course work:
- Statistics/research design course work: 6 credits
- Non-departmental electives: 6 credits
Finally, each student will design and complete a 6-credit capstone research project. During this project students will work closely with a faculty member to gain experience with planning, conducting, analyzing, and writing up results of a small-scale experiment.