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Twin Cities Campus

Audiology Au.D.

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
College of Liberal Arts
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, 115 Shevlin Hall, 164 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-3322; fax: 612-624-7586)
Email: slhs@umn.edu
Website: http://www.slhs.umn.edu
  • Program Type: Doctorate
  • Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2017
  • Length of program in credits: 102
  • This program requires summer semesters for timely completion.
  • Degree: Doctor of Audiology
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the General Information section of this website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
The emphases in the AuD program focus on meeting the standards for licensure as an audiologist. The program emphasizes outcome-based learning activities that prepare graduates to interpret research findings and incorporate them into clinical practice. Coursework and clinical education focus on diagnostic, rehabilitative techniques, technology counseling approaches, and human development. Note that all offers of admission for the AuD program are contingent upon the results of a criminal background check administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services which will be conducted during the upcoming fall semester. The doctoral (AuD) education program in audiology at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA)of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2200 Research Boulevard #310, Rockville, Maryland 20850, 800-498-2071 or 301-296-5700.
Accreditation
This program is accredited by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program is 3.00.
Special Application Requirements:
Prerequisite coursework for the Au.D. program includes transcript credit in statistics, social science, and scientific method/inquiry.
Applicants must submit their test score(s) from the following:
  • GRE
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
  • TOEFL
    • Internet Based - Total Score: 79
    • Internet Based - Writing Score: 21
    • Internet Based - Reading Score: 19
    • Paper Based - Total Score: 550
  • IELTS
    • Total Score: 6.5
  • MELAB
    • Final score: 80
Key to test abbreviations (GRE, TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
94 credits are required in the major.
8 credits are required outside the major.
This program may not be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
A minimum GPA of 2.80 is required for students to remain in good standing.
At least 1 semesters must be completed before filing a Degree Program Form.
The AuD is a four-year plan of study for students entering with a background in speech-language-hearing sciences. Students without such a background should expect an additional year of study. In addition to study in the major field, the degree requires 8 related-fields credits. With advisor approval, up to 6 of these outside-major credits may be completed within the department. During the final year, students complete a clinical externship. Summative evaluations will include a written comprehensive examination followed by an oral exam, and a written capstone project that includes an oral presentation and an oral defense of the project.
Audiology Track: Required Courses
SLHS 5401 - Counseling and Professional Issues (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5801 - Advanced Audiologic Assessment (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5802 - Hearing Aids I (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5803 - Pediatric Audiology (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5804 - Cochlear Implants (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5805 - Advanced Rehabilitative Audiology (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5806 - Auditory Disorders in Children (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5807 - Noise and Hearing Conservation (3.0 cr)
SLHS 5808 - Pathophysiology of Hearing Disorders (3.0 cr)
SLHS 8801 - Electrophysiologic Assessment of Auditory Function (3.0 cr)
SLHS 8802 - Hearing Aids II (3.0 cr)
SLHS 8803 - Signals and Systems in Audiology (3.0 cr)
SLHS 8805 - Hearing Science Foundations of Audiology (3.0 cr)
SLHS 8807 - Balance Assessment (3.0 cr)
Audiology Capstone
Take exactly 6 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 8806 - Audiology Capstone (1.0-6.0 cr)
Clinical Education in Audiology
Take exactly 17 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 8820 - Clinical Education in Audiology (1.0-8.0 cr)
Audiology Externship
Take exactly 17 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 8840 - Audiology Externship (1.0-8.0 cr)
Laboratory Module in Audiology
Take exactly 2 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 5810 - Laboratory Module in Audiology (1.0-2.0 cr)
Clinical Research and Practice: Grand Rounds
Take exactly 4 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 5820 - Clinical Research and Practice: Grand Rounds (1.0-6.0 cr)
Clinical Foundations in Audiology
Take exactly 2 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 5830 - Clinical Foundations in Audiology (1.0-8.0 cr)
Directed Research
Take exactly 4 credit(s) from the following:
· SLHS 8994 - Directed Research (1.0-12.0 cr)
Related Fields
A minimum of 2 credits must be taken outside of SLHS.
Take 8 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ADDS 5021 - Introduction to Evidence Based Practices and the Helping Relationship (3.0 cr)
· CI 5451 - Teaching Reading in Middle and Secondary Grades (3.0 cr)
· CPSY 4302 - Infant Development (3.0 cr)
· CPSY 4329 - Biological Foundations of Development (3.0 cr)
· CPSY 4341 - Perceptual Development (3.0 cr)
· CPSY 4343 - Cognitive Development (3.0 cr)
· CSPH 5806 - Wellbeing and Resiliency for Health Professionals (1.0 cr)
· CSPH 5101 - Introduction to Integrative Healing Practices (3.0 cr)
· CSPH 5111 - Ways of Thinking about Health (2.0 cr)
· EPSY 5101 - Intelligence and Creativity (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5112 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· EPSY 5135 - Human Relations Workshop (4.0 cr)
· EPSY 5400 - Special Topics in Counseling Psychology (1.0-4.0 cr)
· EPSY 5415 - Counseling Children and Adolescents (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5451 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5461 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5609 - Infants and Toddlers with Delays/Disabilities: Family-Centered Approaches to Early Intervention (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5616W - Classroom Management and Behavior Analytic Problem Solving [WI] (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5625 - Education of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children with Disabilities: Introduction (2.0 cr)
· EPSY 5641 - Foundations of Deaf Education (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5642 - Early Intervention for Infants, Toddlers and Families: Deaf and Hard of Hearing (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5644 - Early Childhood Language and Literacy Development and Best Practices: Deaf and Hard of Hearing (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5661 - Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5663 - Assessment and Intervention for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (3.0 cr)
· EPSY 5681 - Educating Preschoolers with Disabilities: Specialized Approaches and Interventions (3.0 cr)
· GERO 5105 - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Aging (2.0 cr)
· GERO 5110 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· GERO 5115 {Inactive} (1.0 cr)
· GERO 5125 - Gerontology Service Learning (1.0-3.0 cr)
· HINF 5501 - US Health Care System: Information Challenges in Clinical Care (1.0 cr)
· KIN 8211 - Seminar: Perception and Action (3.0 cr)
· LING 8921 - Seminar in Language and Cognition (3.0 cr)
· NSCI 5101 - Neurobiology I: Molecules, Cells, and Systems (3.0 cr)
· NSCI 5111 - Medical Neuroscience for Graduate Students (5.0 cr)
· OTOL 8234 - Anatomy of the Head and Neck and Temporal Bone Dissection (2.0 cr)
· OTOL 8247 - Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing and Balance (3.0 cr)
· PHAR 5201 - Applied Medical Terminology (2.0 cr)
· PHAR 5207 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· PSY 4036 - Perceptual Issues in Visual Impairment (3.0 cr)
· PSY 4960 - Seminar in Psychology (1.0-4.0 cr)
· PSY 5014 - Psychology of Human Learning and Memory (3.0 cr)
· PSY 5037 - Psychology of Hearing (3.0 cr)
· PSY 5054 - Psychology of Language (3.0 cr)
· PSY 5137 - Introduction to Behavioral Genetics (3.0 cr)
· PSY 5205 - Applied Social Psychology (3.0 cr)
· PSY 5960 - Topics in Psychology (1.0-4.0 cr)
· PSY 8037 - Psychophysics and Audition (3.0 cr)
· PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology (2.0 cr)
· PUBH 6904 - Nutrition and Aging (2.0 cr)
· PUBH 8805 - Sociological Theory in Health Services Research (3.0 cr)
· SPAN 5985 - Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Spanish in the United States (3.0 cr)
· SLHS 5900 - Topics in SLHS (2.0 cr)
· SLHS 8530 - Seminar: Speech (3.0 cr)
Joint- or Dual-degree Coursework:
AuD and PhD in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Students may take a total of 9 credits in common among the academic programs.
 
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SLHS 5401 - Counseling and Professional Issues
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Basic counseling principles and current professional issues related to practice in a dynamic multicultural environment. Application of counseling theory to clinical practice. Analysis of regulation, practice, and future direction of communication disorders. prereq: [[concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 8720 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 8820], grad student] recommended
SLHS 5801 - Advanced Audiologic Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Basic audiometric battery, including pure tone thresholds, measures of speech understanding, masking and immittance in adults. Topics include video ostoscopy, ototoxicity, functional hearing loss, and identification of middle-ear fluid. Students enrolled in this course concurrently enroll in SLHS 5810. prereq: 4801 or CDis 4801 or instr consent
SLHS 5802 - Hearing Aids I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Survey of modern hearing aids including history of development, electroacoustic functions, clinic and laboratory measurement techniques, sound field acoustics, techniques for selection. prereq: [[3305, 4801] or [CDIS 3305, CDIS 4801], SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 5803 - Pediatric Audiology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Behavioral, physiological approaches to assessment and identification, development of the auditory mechanism, etiologies of hearing losses in infants, children, principles of case management with children and families. prereq: [[4801 or CDIS 4801], SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 5804 - Cochlear Implants
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Implantable auditory prostheses. History of device development, including cochlear implants and auditory brainstem implants. Signal processing. Techniques for selection, fitting, and rehabilitation. Behavioral/physiological changes across life span. prereq: [[4802, 5801, 5802] or [CDIS 4802, CDIS 5801, CDIS 5802], SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 5805 - Advanced Rehabilitative Audiology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Analysis of speech perception/production. Communication skills/strategies. Sensory modalities. Rehabilitative techniques in adults, children, and infants with hearing losses. Tinnitus management. Audiology telepractice.
SLHS 5806 - Auditory Disorders in Children
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
In this course students learn about assessing hearing and listening difficulties in children ?beyond the audiogram?, as well as the pediatric-specific considerations for intervention and management of identified hearing difficulties. This course covers the anatomy and physiology of the central auditory pathway, assessments to evaluate auditory disorders and processing skills, and techniques to address auditory processing weaknesses and disorders in children. Additional topics include normal and disordered auditory processing abilities, current and historical theories and controversies surrounding auditory assessment beyond the audiogram, and advances in the assessment and management of childhood hearing disorders. prereq: [4802 or CDIS 4802, SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 5807 - Noise and Hearing Conservation
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Students in this course will learn to: Describe the auditory and nonauditory effects of noise on humans, Design a successful hearing conservation program, Measure noise levels in a variety of settings, Monitor hearing, Measure hearing protection devices, Develop educational materials, and Describe federal and state regulations as they relate to hearing conservation. prereq: [8801, 8802] or [CDis 8801, CDis 8802]
SLHS 5808 - Pathophysiology of Hearing Disorders
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Disorders of auditory system, including anatomical, physiological, perceptual, and audiological manifestations of pathologies affecting hearing. Focus will be on understanding current data on physiology, pharmacology, and novel treatment alternatives prereq: [[8801, 8802] or [CDIS 8801, CDIS 8802], SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 8801 - Electrophysiologic Assessment of Auditory Function
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Basic terminology and theoretical aspects of the auditory evoked potentials, electrocochleography, acoustic reflectance, and otoacoustic emissions. Topics include case studies with clinical application of short-latency responses such as the auditory brainstem response and otoacoustic emissions in adults. Students enrolled in this course concurrently enroll in SLHS 5810. prereq: 5801 or CDis 5801 or instr consent
SLHS 8802 - Hearing Aids II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Instrumentation and methods for fitting and evaluating personal hearing aids; ear impression techniques and materials; repair and modification of hearing aids. prereq: 5802 or Cdis 5802 or instr consent
SLHS 8803 - Signals and Systems in Audiology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
This mostly laboratory class includes familiarization and application of test equipment and methods for calibrating audiometric equipment. Sessions will include topics such as sound-field calibration, earphone calibration, filters, spectra of transient signals, and use of an artificial mastoid. prereq: [3305, 3306, 4801] or [CDis 3305, CDis 3306, CDis 4801] or instr consent
SLHS 8805 - Hearing Science Foundations of Audiology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Physiological/psychological acoustics. Emphasizes hearing loss. Acoustics of the middle and external ear, cochlear mechanics, neural codes for perception, frequency selectivity, loudness, temporal resolution, clear speech, attention, prediction of speech understanding ability using stimulus measures, and binaural hearing. prereq: Knowledge of acoustics, basic anatomy/physiology of ear, intro coursework in hearing/speech science
SLHS 8807 - Balance Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Anatomy/physiology of vestibular mechanism. Assessment techniques to evaluate balance function. Treatment options available for persons with balance disorders. prereq: 5801, 8801
SLHS 8806 - Audiology Capstone
Credits: 1.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Students research a case history of patient with an auditory disorder, write paper that summarizes the literature on the disorder, and recommend assessment tools and treatment plans. prereq: 8802, 8807
SLHS 8820 - Clinical Education in Audiology
Credits: 1.0 -8.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Clinical experience. prereq: Grad CDis major
SLHS 8840 - Audiology Externship
Credits: 1.0 -8.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Students intern at external clinical setting under supervision of certified audiologist. Entry-level knowledge and skills required for professional practice as clinical audiologist. External internship settings may include hospitals, schools, private otolaryngology practices, hearing aid dispensing practices, industrial settings, or community clinics. prereq: [8802, 8807] or [CDIS 8802, CDIS 8807]
SLHS 5810 - Laboratory Module in Audiology
Credits: 1.0 -2.0 [max 10.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Intensive study of clinical methods in audiology. Supplements didactic courses in audiology curriculum. Laboratory study, individually or in small groups. Students enroll in this course concurrently with SLHS 5801, 5802, 8801, 8802. prereq: [4801 or CDIS 4801, SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 5820 - Clinical Research and Practice: Grand Rounds
Credits: 1.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Group discussions of current professional issues in audiology. Case presentations, guest presentations on current technology, clinical/research ethics. Group meets for an hour weekly with faculty coordinator who leads discussion. Integrates academic/clinical education. prereq: [[4801 or CDIS 4801 or equiv], SLHS grad] or instr consent
SLHS 5830 - Clinical Foundations in Audiology
Credits: 1.0 -8.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Clinical foundations in audiology for first year AuD graduate students. prereq: Grad SLHS major
SLHS 8994 - Directed Research
Credits: 1.0 -12.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Directed research prereq: instr consent
ADDS 5021 - Introduction to Evidence Based Practices and the Helping Relationship
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: AddS 5002/AddS 5021
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Initiating, conducting, and terminating a counseling relationship. Use of self in counseling process. Nature/process of helping. Evidence-based practices/theories. Reading, discussion, written exercises, role-play, observation, feedback, out-of-class practice.
CI 5451 - Teaching Reading in Middle and Secondary Grades
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Methods of accommodating to students' abilities and facilitating reading in regular content classes.
CPSY 4302 - Infant Development
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Perceptual, motor, emotional, social, and cognitive development during the first two years of life; the developing infant in his or her social and physical environment. prereq: CPSY 2301 or equivalent or instructor consent
CPSY 4329 - Biological Foundations of Development
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Evolutionary theory and behavioral genetics applied to understanding of development of human behavior; formation of species-typical adaptive behavior and individual differences in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. prereq: CPSY 2301 / 3301 or equiv
CPSY 4341 - Perceptual Development
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Study how children learn to perceive and experience the world. Explore different approaches to studying brain function and the development of the sensory and perceptual systems and processes with focus on infant perception and the neurobiology of how the senses work. Cover a variety of developmental disorders of sensation and perception: learn about normal brain function by studying abnormal brain function. prereq: CPSY 2301 / 3301 or equiv
CPSY 4343 - Cognitive Development
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to the scientific study of cognitive development (children's thinking) from infancy through adolescence. Focus on research and practical applications. Specific topic areas include infant perception and cognition, attention and memory development, language and symbolic thinking, social cognition, executive function. prereq: CPSY 2301 or 3301 or equivalent
CSPH 5806 - Wellbeing and Resiliency for Health Professionals
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course will teach health professional students and health professionals self-care strategies that will improve their individual wellbeing and reduce the stress and burnout often experienced in these professions. Improving individual wellbeing will also contribute to greater wellbeing in the teams and systems in which these professionals work Prereq jr or sr or grad, or instructor consent
CSPH 5101 - Introduction to Integrative Healing Practices
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
By the end of the course, students will demonstrate an understanding of the overall field of integrative healing practices, which includes both integrative and alternative (CAM) therapies. The course will cover theoretical framework, safety, efficacy, and evidence for various therapies and practices. The online version of this course is an approved 1Health Interprofessional Education (IPE) activity. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student; or instructor consent
CSPH 5111 - Ways of Thinking about Health
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course is your opportunity to examine, challenge and critically reflect upon your thinking about health. The class meets in a hybrid model that includes in-person, field-trip ?micro-immersion experience? to explore different understandings of health through visits to cultural communities. We include with field trips virtual experiential glimpses into fundamentally different systems of knowledge often conflicting with the scientific/professional models emphasized in many professional fields on campus. Frameworks for critical thinking, critical self-reflection, cultural self-study, intellectual virtues and supplemental readings are offered to support your effort to step into culturally different knowledge systems and mental models of health and well-being. These frames and approaches offer you a mirror through which your own perspective, thinking and background assumptions of health become more visible and explicit. I ask you to challenge your own thinking and better recognize the culture you carry in your thinking as you attempt to inhabit different cognitive worlds. You will also apply this examination to the professional fields of your interest, sharing your insights with learners in other professions. In this way, we bring together interdisciplinary and intercultural learning. On the dates that we meet virtually, our goal is to create a space that encourages us to share with sincerity our thoughts and emerging insights with one another in Zoom conversations. The synchronous Zoom sessions allow you to benefit from each other?s personal and professional take on the immersion experiences as you develop your philosophy, narrative and understanding of health. prereq: jr, sr, grad, or instr consent
EPSY 5101 - Intelligence and Creativity
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3101/EPsy 5101
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Contemporary theories of intelligence and intellectual development and contemporary theories of creativity and their implications for educational practices and psychological research.
EPSY 5135 - Human Relations Workshop
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Experiential course addressing issues of prejudice and discrimination in terms of history, power, and social perception. Includes knowledge and skills acquisition in cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, effective leadership, judgment and decision-making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution.
EPSY 5400 - Special Topics in Counseling Psychology
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theory, research, and practice in counseling and student personnel psychology. Topics vary.
EPSY 5415 - Counseling Children and Adolescents
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Development, issues, and needs of children, kindergarten through high school ages. Counseling/developmental theory/strategies. Cultural diversity, legal/ethical issues in counseling children/adolescents. prereq: Grad student or MEd student or K-12 [counseling endorsement or licensure] student
EPSY 5609 - Infants and Toddlers with Delays/Disabilities: Family-Centered Approaches to Early Intervention
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 4609/EPsy 5609
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course was designed to provide pre-service and current teachers as well as related service providers with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the dynamic ecosystems of families with a child with disabilities. Students will be introduced to the major methods, philosophies, and current research that emphasize effective family-professional collaboration in planning and service delivery for infants and young children with disabilities. The focus is on a family-centered approach to assess and design educational plans and interventions, with a specific emphasis on relationship building and understanding the diverse perspectives on family life and developmental expectations.
EPSY 5616W - Classroom Management and Behavior Analytic Problem Solving (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3616W/ EPsy 5616W
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Focuses on principles of behavior analysis and procedures used in the assessment and management of classroom behavior. Although the application of behavioral principles in educational settings is the central purpose of this course, complementary issues related to general classroom management will also be addressed. Consistent with the mission of the College of Education and Human Development, this course aims to strengthen effective educational practice, promote inquiry, and build leadership skills for regular and special educators and professionals in allied fields. Community Engaged Learning (CEL): This course integrates community engaged learning in an educational setting, which may include day-care centers, pre-kindergarten programs, K-12 schools, and post-secondary transition programs. Students are required to engage in a community placement for a minimum of 2 hours per week (20 hours total). Licensure students should use their pre-student teaching field experience placements as their CEL site and must complete the minimum number of hours required of their field experience course. Note: Teacher licensure candidates should register for the appropriate pre-student teaching field experience in accordance with their program plans. Non-licensure students have two options for securing a CEL placement: (1) register for 1 credit of EPSY 3701/5701 Practicum: Field Experience in General Education ? Inclusive Classrooms or (2) secure a placement through the UMN Center for Community Engaged Learning (information provided in class). prereq: For online sections, students must be an ASD certificate candidate or a Special Education Major or Special Education M.Ed./M.A.
EPSY 5625 - Education of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children with Disabilities: Introduction
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 3625/EPsy 5625
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Examination of key issues and practices related to early intervention and early childhood special education, with an emphasis on family-focused and inclusive services for children birth to age six. Students enrolled in this course will be provided with a background in historical and philosophical issues relating to special education, components of due process and data privacy, the IEP/IFSP process, an overview of various disabilities and disorders, and information regarding how disabilities may affect individuals and families.
EPSY 5641 - Foundations of Deaf Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Philosophical foundations of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) education. Engage in discussion, debates, and processes that have influenced deaf education, communication methodologies, and placement options in the US. Considered from the perspective of deaf and hard of hearing children, adults, and their families.
EPSY 5642 - Early Intervention for Infants, Toddlers and Families: Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Summer
Early identification and intervention with deaf and hard of hearing children including the development of ASL and English, Emergent Literacy in the homes and the role of Deaf Mentors. Emphasis on the importance of early exposure to fully accessible language and addressing the issue of language deprivation. prereq: Preservice teacher in deaf education licensing program or instr consent.
EPSY 5644 - Early Childhood Language and Literacy Development and Best Practices: Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Perspectives and best practices related to the development of early language and literacy skills in ASL and English for deaf and hard of hearing children. prereq: Preservice teacher in deaf education licensing program or instr consent
EPSY 5661 - Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Knowledge/skills needed to promote learning/success for school age children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Definition, etiology, and characteristics of ASD. Current research/issues. Collaborative problem solving, family-professional partnerships, educational programming.
EPSY 5663 - Assessment and Intervention for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Selection/use of range of procedures, including non-biased, specific assessments to screen/identify children with autism spectrum disorder. Specific intervention strategies designed to teach beginning communication/social skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). prereq: 5661, Special Ed grad, licensure student, ASD Certificate student, IDP major or instr consent
EPSY 5681 - Educating Preschoolers with Disabilities: Specialized Approaches and Interventions
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EPsy 4681/EPsy 5681
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
This course provides an opportunity to engage in in-depth learning related to a variety of specialized approaches and interventions designed to maximize developmental and educational outcomes for young children, birth to age 6, with disabilities and their families in home, community, and school-based settings. Early educators and early childhood special educators play a major role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of individualized programming and are called upon to provide services that are interdisciplinary, multicultural, family-centered, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, and effective. Thus, early childhood professionals must be knowledgeable of and proficient in their application of curricular adaptations and instructional strategies that address the needs of young children with a broad range of disabilities in a broad range of preschool settings. prereq: [5616, 5625] or instr consent
GERO 5105 - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Aging
Credits: 2.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Obtain a broad understanding of the multidisciplinary perspectives, theoretical underpinnings, and advancements in the study of aging ("gerontology"), in the inter-related domains of clinical geriatrics, psychology, sociology, and policy as related to aging.
GERO 5125 - Gerontology Service Learning
Credits: 1.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
At least 100 hours of service to seniors or organizations serving seniors required. Longitudinal one-on-one relationship with at least two seniors. Service activities may include: friendly visiting, escorting seniors to medical appointments, chore services, teaching health education to groups of seniors and staff, participating in social or recreational activities with seniors, assisting with immunization and screening programs, assisting seniors with selection of health plans, or providing volunteer home health aide or nursing assistant services or emergency non-medical response under the supervision of a nurse. Students may use up to 25 percent of their service time for project that benefits the campus as a whole. Reading, monthly class discussions, a term paper and weekly self-reflection
HINF 5501 - US Health Care System: Information Challenges in Clinical Care
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Health care system/its unique interaction between key health system stakeholders. Relationship between patients, providers, payers, regulatory bodies. Role of information management/challenges of information standardization/exchange. prereq: Junior or senior or professional student or grad student or instr consent
KIN 8211 - Seminar: Perception and Action
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Survey of theory/research on use of perceptual information for control of action. Behavioral research on perceptual guidance of daily activities (e.g., standing, walking, driving). Perceptual control in context of expertise (e.g., sports). Perceptual-motor development. prereq: grad student or instr consent
LING 8921 - Seminar in Language and Cognition
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Language-related issues in cognitive science from a linguistic perspective. Serves as elective for cognitive science minor, but only for linguistics nonmajors. prereq: instr consent
NSCI 5101 - Neurobiology I: Molecules, Cells, and Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course discusses the basic principles of cellular and molecular neurobiology and nervous systems. The main topics include: Organization of simple networks, neural systems and behavior; how the brain develops and the physiology and communication of neurons and glia; the molecular and genetic basis of cell organization; ion channel structure and function; the molecular basis of synaptic receptors; transduction mechanisms and second messengers; intracellular regulation of calcium; neurotransmitter systems, including excitation and inhibition, neuromodulation, system regulation and the cellular basis of learning, memory and cognition. The course is intended for students majoring in neuroscience, but is open to all students with the required prerequisites.
NSCI 5111 - Medical Neuroscience for Graduate Students
Credits: 5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Survey of molecular, cellular, and systems neuroscience as related to medicine. Lecture/lab. prereq: Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: : 6111; BioC 3021, Biol 4004, instr consent; intended for grad students who require a comprehensive medically-oriented neuroscience course
OTOL 8234 - Anatomy of the Head and Neck and Temporal Bone Dissection
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Head and neck anatomy studied from cadaver through programmed learning. Temporal bones dissected to learn anatomy and to practice otologic surgical procedures. S/N for nonmajors only. prereq: Grad otol major or instr consent
OTOL 8247 - Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing and Balance
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Nsc 8247/Otol 8247
Typically offered: Every Spring
Structure and function of auditory and vestibular systems. Network analysis of middle and inner ear mechanics, hair cell biophysics, auditory nerve and CNS electrophysiology, information processing, neural mechanisms subserving balance and gaze, cellular morphology, and computer models. prereq: instr consent
PHAR 5201 - Applied Medical Terminology
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: Phar 1002/Phar 5201
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Interested in learning the difference between an antigen and an antibiotic? During this course, you will not only increase your medical vocabulary by more than 2500 words at your own pace, you will also learn to identify and articulately describe a wide variety of medical conditions and processes. Communication related to disease states, procedures, and diagnostics in health care can sometimes seem like another language. This course will help you recognize medical abbreviations, relate terms to procedures and diagnostics, and comprehend the meaning of medical terminology by using word elements. If you are interested in the health care field or would like to understand more about your own medical care, this course is a great place to start. Prereq: Basic knowledge of human anatomy/physiology
PSY 4036 - Perceptual Issues in Visual Impairment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Challenges/capabilities of people who are blind or have low vision. Reading, space perception, mobility. Strengths/weaknesses of adaptive technology. prereq: 1001 or instr consent
PSY 4960 - Seminar in Psychology
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Seminars in subjects of current interest in Psychology. prereq: [1001, psych major] or instr consent
PSY 5014 - Psychology of Human Learning and Memory
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Human memory encoding/retrieval. How we adaptively use memory. Brain systems that support memory. Episodic/semantic memory. Working/short-term memory. Procedural memory. Repetition priming. Prospective remembering. Autobiographical memory. prereq: 3011 or 3051 or honors or grad student
PSY 5037 - Psychology of Hearing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: NSc 5037/Psy 5037
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Biological and physical aspects of hearing, auditory psychophysics, theories and models of hearing, perception of complex sounds including music and speech. Clinical/other applications. Prereq: Instructor permission
PSY 5054 - Psychology of Language
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theories/experimental evidence in past/present conceptions of psychology of language. prereq: Grad or [[jr or sr], [3011 or 3031 or 3051 or 3061]] or instr consent
PSY 5137 - Introduction to Behavioral Genetics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Genetic methods for studying human/animal behavior. Emphasizes nature/origin of individual differences in behavior. Twin and adoption methods. Cytogenetics, molecular genetics, linkage/association studies. prereq: 3001W or equiv or instr consent
PSY 5205 - Applied Social Psychology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Applications of social psychology research/theory to domains such as physical/mental health, education, the media, desegregation, the legal system, energy conservation, public policy. prereq: 3201 or grad student or instr consent
PSY 5960 - Topics in Psychology
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Special course or seminar. Topics listed in Class Schedule. prereq: PSY 1001, [jr or sr or grad student]
PSY 8037 - Psychophysics and Audition
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Modern/classical psychophysics. Psychophysical/physiological correlates of audition. Theories of hearing. prereq: instr consent
PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
How a society's social interactions, past and present, yield differential exposures and differences in health outcomes between persons who make up populations. New disease-specific risk factors. How well-known exposures emerge and are maintained by social system.
PUBH 6904 - Nutrition and Aging
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Current literature on nutrition needs/factors affecting nutritional status of adults and the elderly. Relevant community resources. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent
PUBH 8805 - Sociological Theory in Health Services Research
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Overview of sociological theories in medical sociology, occupations/professions. Emphasizes teaching students how to apply theories to health/social phenomena of their own interest/choice.
SPAN 5985 - Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Spanish in the United States
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Sociolinguistic analysis of issues such as language maintenance/shift in U.S. Latino communities, code switching, attitudes of Spanish speakers toward varieties of Spanish and English, language change in bilingual communities, and language policy issues. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
SLHS 5900 - Topics in SLHS
Credits: 2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Topics listed in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences office. prereq: SLHS grad student or instr consent
SLHS 8530 - Seminar: Speech
Credits: 3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Advanced study and analysis of research in speech science and speech pathology.