Courses

Students applying for admission to the graduate program in Speech and Hearing Sciences should have taken or be in the process of completing the following courses or their equivalent. All courses to fulfill program requirements must be completed for a letter grade. Completion of coursework does not guarantee admission to the graduate program.

Core Coursework Requirement

The following courses are not required for admittance into the graduate program but are required for the SLP master's degree and it is strongly recommended that they be taken as a post-baccalaureate student.

Statistics Requirement

Course work in statistics or equivalent research methodology is required in the PSU Speech and Hearing graduate program.  Many students have completed this requirement as part of their undergraduate degree.  Students who have not already completed this requirement can complete either 2 terms of undergraduate statistics through the Department of Math and Statistics or 1 term of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences statistics course as a post-baccalaureate student.  The following classes are examples of courses offered at PSU that may be completed to fulfill the statistics requirement.  Students may also fulfill this requirement at a community college. 

Additional Coursework

• SPHR 395 (Directed Clinical Assistantship; 2 credits) is an elective for post-bacc students, and is not required for admission to the graduate program or for the master's degree. It is taken on a Pass/No Pass basis. Pre-Requisite: SPHR 370 (recommended). Offered Fall/Winter/Spring.
• ASL 101 (American Sign Language I; 4 credits) is required for students who plan to complete requirement for Educational Licensing in Oregon. Pre-Requisite: None. Offered Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer through the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. 

Additional ASHA Certification Requirements

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific and credentialing association for speech-language pathologists, and speech, language and hearing scientists.  For certification in speech-language pathology, ASHA requires that students have transcript credit (which includes course work, Advanced Placement courses, CLEP, or examination of equivalency) in each of the following areas:

• Biological Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Social Behavioral Sciences
• Math (The statistics courses listed above will satisfy the math requirement)

Many students will have completed coursework in these areas as part of their undergraduate degree.  If these courses have not been completed as part of an undergraduate degree, it is strongly recommended that students take them as a post-baccalaureate student before they begin a graduate program.  Many graduate programs in speech-language pathology require completion of these courses as additional prerequisites.

A post-baccalaureate advisor can help a student determine whether courses taken as an undergraduate fulfill the statistics and ASHA requirements.