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Speech Pathology and Audiology
Explore Marquette : Majors & Minors : Health Sciences : Speech Pathology & Audiology

 
WOMAN CHECKING HEARING ON PATIENT 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.
WORKING WITH CHILD

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

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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 Your major courses blue.

FRESHMAN
Introduction to Communicative Speech Disorders
Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing Mechanisms

Rhetoric and Composition I & II
Growth of Western Civilization I & II
Modern Elementary Statistics
Science and Nature Elective
Foreign Language I & II
SOPHOMORE
Articulation and Phonological Disorders
Language Disorders in Children
Normal Speech and Language Development
Phonetics

General Psychology
Introduction to Theology
Literature/Performing Arts Elective
Philosophy of Human Nature
General Physics I
JUNIOR
Clinical Practicum – Speech Pathology I
Clinical Procedures and Management
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 Problems
Introduction to Neurological Disorders
of Communication
Methods and Procedures in School
Speech and Hearing Programs

Diverse Cultures Elective
Electives

CHILD LISTENING TO HEADPHONES

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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