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Speech-Language Pathology Curriculum

For prerequisite introductory courses, click here: non-matric

61 credits, Arts and Science Curriculum (AS - Code #556)

* Students begin their initial clinical placement in either the spring semester of the first year or the summer session of the first year. Timing of this placement will depend on academic achievement, clinic readiness criteria and space availability. Not all first year students admitted to the Program will be placed in clinic practicum in spring of their first year following matriculation. Those who begin clinic in the summer session of the first year must anticipate graduating in summer following the second year. All students are required to complete a minimum of four clinical practica and achieve a minimum passing grade of B in each clinical experience.

** A second summer clinical practicum is required for all students who do not begin their clinical practicum until the first summer following matriculation.

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Hunter College's Communication Sciences Program periodically offers the following
non-matriculate prerequisite courses

COMSC 604 - Introduction to Language Science
An introduction to the nature of language and communication. Topics include components of the linguistic system, relationship between verbal and non-verbal communication, and language acquisition across the life span.

COMSC 607 - Phonetics of American English
Phonetic features of oral American English and dialectal variations of American English and non-native English speech.

COMSC 615 - Speech and Its Production
An overview of the structure of speech and the basic mechanisms involved the production of speech sounds; a foundation for a more in-depth study of speech science and its application to clinical practice in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology; Structure and organization of the ventilatory, laryngeal, supralaryngeal and orofacial mechanisms; issues in basic speech acoustics and perception.

COMSC 620 - Introduction to Speech-Language Pathology
Introduction to organic and behavioral correlates of human communication; its development and disorders. The influence of culture, heritage, and socioeconomic status on the disorders of voice, articulation, fluency, and language.

COMSC 640 - Introduction to Audiology
Etiology and pathology of hearing disorders, basic properties of the auditory stimulus: measurement of pre tone thresholds by air and bone conduction. Overview of the audiologist in diagnosis and management of hearing disorders.

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