Speech Pathology & Audiology
A child with delayed language development. A teen who stutters. A mother coping with severe hearing impairment. A grandfather fighting to regain speech after a stroke. All rely upon the care and expertise of speech-language pathologists and audiologists to identify, evaluate and treat their communicative disorders.THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE
GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY - AND FINISH ON TIME. With direct admission to the program, you'll begin taking speech pathology and audiology courses in your first term. And you'll graduate in four years
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ON-SITE CLINICALS. Supervised by faculty who are certified speech-language pathologists and audiologists, you'll work in Marquette's Speech and Hearing Clinic with children and adults who have speech, language or hearing communication difficulties - something many programs don't offer to their undergraduates.
BE PREPARED. Marquette's curriculum and clinicals prepare you to meet licensure requirements for the state of Wisconsin, as well as requirements for certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
WORK WITH CHILDREN. Help children overcome speech and language impairments, and do it right here in Marquette's preschool language and phonology clinics.
PRACTICE WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED. Work with your professors as they conduct research in areas such as child language, or as they help adults regain communication skills lost to traumatic brain injuries or strokes.
BILINGUAL CERTIFICATION. In your first year, you can begin course work for a Bilingual English-Spanish Certificate in speech-language pathology, preparing you to evaluate and treat communication disorders in Spanish-speaking people in educational and medical settings. It's the only program of its kind in the Midwest.
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Suggested curriculum
Your major courses blue.
Freshman
- Introduction to Speech-language Pathology
and Audiology - Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Mechanisms
- Rhetoric and Composition I & II
- Growth of Western Civilization I & II
- Modern Elementary Statistics
- Science and Nature Elective
- Foreign Language I & II
Sophomore
- Child Speech Sound Disorders
- Child Language Disorders
- Child Language Development
- Phonetics and Phonology
- General Psychology
- Introduction to Theology
- Literature/Performing Arts Elective
- Philosophy of Human Nature
- General Physics I
- Elective
Junior
- Clinical Practicum – Speech Pathology I
- Intervention Methods in Speech-language Pathology
- Introduction to Audiology
- Speech Science
- Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders
- Theology Elective
- Theory of Ethics
- Developmental Psychology I
- Literature/Performing Arts Elective
- The Psychology of the Exceptional Child
- Medical Ethics
- Electives
Senior
- Clinical Practicum – Speech Pathology II
- Hearing Disorders
- Introduction to Neurological Disorders
- Diverse Cultures Elective
- Electives
WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists work in public and private schools, hospitals, clinics, developmental centers and rehabilitation centers - but a master's degree is required to practice in any of these areas. Most of our students go on to graduate school (nearly half earn their master's degrees from Marquette). During the past few years, our students have been admitted at a rate of more than 90 percent to a list of schools that includes:
- George Washington University
- Michigan State University
- Northwestern University
- Old Dominion University
- St. Louis University
- Syracuse University
- University of Hawaii
- University of Iowa
- University of Kansas
- University of Minnesota
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin
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