PREREQUISITE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

LOWER-DIVISION COURSEWORK:

CSD 311K Phonetic Description of Speech. Speech production, physiological analysis and description of speech sounds, voice quality, and voice dynamics; notation; phonetic theory; applications of phonetics.

CSD 313L.Hearing Science. Acoustical, physiological, and psychological bases of normal human hearing; theories of audition; laboratory techniques in hearing science research.

CSD 315S Speech Science (same as Linguistics 315). Physiological and acoustical bases of speech production; theories of motor control of speech; laboratory techniques in speech science research.

UPPER-DIVISION COURSEWORK:

CSD 341 Principles of Audiology. Causes of hearing disorders; diagnostic procedures and treatment.

CSD 350 Language and the Brain (same as LIN 350). A comprehensive survey of topics dealing with the neurobiological basis of speech and language. Topics include neuroanatomy/neurophysiology; theories of language representation in the brain, aphasiology, and hemispheric lateralization.

CSD 368K Acquisition of Communicative Abilities in Children. Development in the very young child of capacities for speaking and listening; how these abilities are employed for communicative purposes.

CSD 168L Acquisition of Communicative Abilities in Children: Laboratory. Clinical laboratory experience in child language. One lecture hour a week for one semester.

CSD 367K Introduction to Speech and Language Disorders Assessment and Treatment in Children. Introduction to assessment procedures and treatment strategies for children with speech and language disorders.

CSD 371 Introduction to Speech and Language Disorders Assessment and Treatment in Adults. Introduction to assessment procedures and treatment strategies for adults with speech and language disorders.

CSD 373 Principles of Aural Rehabilitation (RECOMMENDED *)

Rationale, methods, materials, procedures, and criteria for aural rehabilitation for hearing-impaired persons. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing and twelve semester hours of lower-division coursework in communication sciences and disorders.

* This course is not a prerequisite for study in SLP, but a competency in AR is required for the American Speech and Hearing Association certification. Students who have not taken an AR course prior to enrolling at UT should plan to enroll in AR during their graduate program.

CSD 378 Clinical Audiology (required ONLY for those students seeking an Au.D. degree). Differential diagnostic procedures for evaluation of auditory disorders—theoretical concepts and clinical applications.

CSD 178L Clinical Audiology Laboratory (required ONLY for those students seeking an Au.D. degree). Clinical laboratory experience in audiology. One lecture hour a week for one semester.

OUT OF DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENT (choose ONLY one of the following courses):

EDP 371 Introduction to Statistics. Measures of central tendency and variability; correlation and regression; probability and statistical inference; analysis of variance; nonparametric statistics.

M 316 Elementary Statistical Methods. Graphical presentation, frequency functions, distribution functions, averages, standard deviation, variance, curve-fitting, and related topics.

SSC 304 Statistics in Health Care. An introduction to the fundamental concepts and methods of statistics emphasizing applications in the health sciences. Exploratory data analysis, correlation and regression, descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.