AuD Program Curriculum
Au.D. Curriculum*
*for students with a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences and disorders
The curriculum for the AuD in Communication Sciences and Disorders was developed to provide students with a strong foundation for clinical practice. This curriculum includes a core of required courses which follow the guidelines recommended by ASHA and AAA for graduate education and clinical certification in Audiology.
The proposed course work meets all of the requirements for the new certification standards set by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. At the end of their second year of the program, AuD students take comprehensive examinations in the areas of diagnostics, aural rehabilitation, hearing science and amplification to gain acceptance into the third year of study.
Au.D. Program for Currently Practicing Audiologists
Admission Information for Non-matriculated Graduate Students
Non-matriculated students are those graduate students that have been provisionally admitted with a Bachelors' Degree in something other than Communication Sciences and Disorders. Although an undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders is not a prerequisite for admission into our graduate program, it is a preparatory program for the AuD degree. Thus, those who enter our AuD program from other professions are required to complete a series of prerequisite undergraduate classes before full admittance to the graduate program. NOTE: The CSD prerequisite requirements are mandated by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
While it is intended that the majority of these prerequisite courses be completed prior to application to the graduate program, you may choose to complete up to three courses as deficiency requirements after acceptance into the graduate program. Please see the Dr. Susan Naidu for advising.
I. 15 Credit Hours of "Normal Communication:"
- CSD 3100 Phonetics
- CSD 3120 Anatomy and Physiology
- CSD 4400 Language Science
- CSD 5380 Language Development
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CSD 4200 Hearing Science (for Au.D. students) or CSD 4300 Speech Science (for Speech-Language Students)
II. Course in Hearing Disorders and Rehabilitation:
- CSD 4500 Hearing Disorders and Evaluation
III. Twelve Allied Course Credits:
Allied courses must include three credits in each of the following four areas:
- Statistics (e.g., elementary statistics, statistics for the behavioral sciences, etc.)
- Physical Science (e.g., physics, chemistry, etc.)
- Biological Science (e.g., biology, general anatomy & physiology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, genetics, etc.)
- Social and Behavioral Science (e.g., psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, etc.)
