| Students who are interested in
obtaining preparation for graduate studies in communication
sciences and disorders (a master's degree is required
for practice as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist)
may gain such preparation through the Speech and Hearing
Sciences program in either of two ways: (1) completing
a Minor in Speech and Hearing Sciences, or (2) completing
an Individual/Interdisciplinary Major with Speech and
Hearing Sciences as one component.
Minor-Speech and Hearing Sciences
The Minor in Speech and Hearing Sciences requires completion
of five preparation for the major courses (18 units)
and a minimum of 5 undergraduate courses (20 units)*.
All of these courses must be completed on a letter-grade
basis. The Speech and Hearing Sciences Minor is typically
combined with a student's major in one of the following
departments: Psychology, Linguistics, Spanish, Biology,
and Computer Science.
*It is strongly recommended that students preparing
for graduate studies in Communication Sciences and Disorders
complete as many as possible of the Speech and Hearing
Sciences (SHS) courses offered.
Note: Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval
by the chair of the department. Please see the
UCSB Catalog
for special conditions governing minors in the College
of Letters and Science.
Individual/Interdisciplinary Major
The Individual/Interdisciplinary Major
at UCSB allows qualified students to plan their own,
individualized major. Students interested in preparing
for graduate studies in Communication Sciences and Disorders
often use this avenue to design a course of study that
qualifies them for admission to graduate school. Qualified
students are those who have been a University of California
student for at least three quarters and earned a minimum
of 36 units in residence at UCSB. Typically a grade
point average above 3.2 is required. This plan has the
following requirements:
1. Following completion of General Education requirements,
students select three departments whose coursework is
particularly relevant to the study of speech, language,
and hearing. One of those departments is always speech
and hearing sciences.
2. With the help of a faculty advisor in speech and
hearing sciences, and with the approval of advisors
in each department, students select coursework within
each department that totals a minimum of 16 upper division
units.* In addition, students are required to complete
all prerequisites for those upper division courses.
Typical "trios" of departments that students
have selected are as follows: Speech and Hearing Sciences,
Psychology, and Linguistics; Speech and Hearing Sciences,
Linguistics, and Spanish; Speech and Hearing Sciences,
Biology, and Psychology; Speech and Hearing Sciences,
Biology, and Computer Science.
3. Students prepare a proposal to be submitted to the
Dean of Undergraduate Studies for approval, which is
not automatic. The standards are high for individual
majors (although to date, no plan incorporating Speech
and Hearing Sciences has been denied).
4. Before graduation, students complete a Senior Thesis
(SHS 182), under the direction of a faculty member in
one of their three designated departments. The nature
of this project, to be determined by the student in
consultation with faculty, ranges from a major library
research paper to a data-based research project.
* It is strongly recommended that students preparing
for graduate studies in Communication Sciences and Disorders
complete as many as possible of the Speech and Hearing
Sciences (SHS) courses offered.
Academic Courses Offered
for Speech and Hearing Sciences
Preparation
| SHS
50 |
Introduction to Communication Disorders, (4),
(Professor Janis Costello Ingham, spring quarter).
Recommended preparation: Interdisciplinary Studies
100. Description and illustration of speech, language,
and hearing of children and adults with a variety
of communication disorders including phonology,
stuttering, voice, aphasia, language, and hearing
disorders. Includes consideration of precipitating
and maintaining factors. |
| EEMB
25 or MCDB 25 |
Human Anatomy (4), (Professor Wise, fall and winter
quarters). Recommended preparation: EEMB 20or MCDB
20 or other course in biology. Emphasis on fundamental
structural and functional approaches of organ systems
based on the human organism. Discussion of modern
biomedical advances, techniques, and current topics
in relation to their respective systems. |
| Interdisciplinary
Studies 100 |
Library Research Bibliography (2).Recommended
preparation: Interdisciplinary 1. Students critically
examine the complex range of library resources,
from print to electronic, in their field. A brief
research paper analyzing the student's research
progress is required. Students also develop an extensive
analytical bibliography. Suggested for students
concurrently enrolled in courses requiring library
research, or for those who want to pursue library
research in other areas. |
| Linguistics
20 |
Language and Linguistics (4). An introduction
to the scientific study of language: the nature
of language structure; the social and cultural function
of language; the origin and the learning of language;
language change and the reconstruction of languages
at earlier stages. |
| Psychology
1 |
General Psychology (4). (Professors Fridlund,
Ettenberg, & Revlin, all quarters). The requirements
of the course will include subject participation
in low-risk psychological experiments or completion
of a short paper. An introduction to the subject
matter and methods of psychology including the physiological
basis of behavior, learning and memory, perception
and cognition, social behavior and personality. |
|
Upper Division. (For the SHS Minor, select
20 units from those listed below. For the Individual/Interdisciplinary
Major, select 16 units.) NOTE: Prerequisite
courses must also be taken and do not count as part
of the required number of upper division units units.
|
| SHS
101 |
Research Methods for Communication Disorders (4).
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Reviews the
principal experimental and descriptive research
designs applicable to group and single subject investigations
of speech, language and hearing disorders. Students
are introduced to appropriate data analysis methods
for these designs. |
| SHS 120 |
Phonemics in Communication Disorders (4) – Professor
Janis Costello Ingham, normally taught in fall quarter.
Prerequisites: SHS 50 and Linguistics 20. (Will
be taught in winter quarter, 2004-5.) Identification
of the phonemes of American English and their symbolic
representation, including modifying symbols for
dedviant phonology. Acoustic, physiological, and
perceptual parameters of speech sound formation. |
| SHS 121 |
Physics of Speech and Hearing (4) – Professor
Jeffrey Danhauer, normally taught in fall quarter.
Recommended preparation: SHS 50. Introduction to
the physics of sound as applicable to speech and
hearing sciences; classification of different sounds;
properties of sound, acoustics of tubes and its
relationship to human speech sounds; psychophysics
of hearing: pitch, intensity, loudness, and their
measurement. |
| SHS 122 |
Anatomy, Physiology, and Neurology of the Speech Mechanism
(4) – Professor Roger Ingham, normally taught
in winter quarter. (Will not be taught in 2004-5.)
Prerequisites: SHS 50 and MCDB or EEMB 25. Recommended
preparation: EEMB 25L or MCDB 25L. Anatomical, physiological,
and neurological bases for an understanding of speech
communication. |
| SHS 128 |
Aural Anatomy and Pathology (4) – Professor
Jeffrey Danhauer, normally taught in winter quarter.
Recommended preparation: SHS 50. Anatomy and physiology
of the human auditory system; causes and types of
hearing impairment, otological considerations; medical
and surgical implications. |
| SHS 131 |
Assessment and Rehabilitation for Hearing-Impaired
Adults (4) – Professor Jeffrey Danhauer, normally
taught in spring quarter, even years. Recommended
preparation: SHS 50, 128. Introduction to psychoacoustic
principles as applied to audiometric diagnostics
and aural rehabilitation with adults. |
| SHS 135 |
Assessment and Rehabilitation for Hearing-Impaired Adults (4) -
Professor Jeffrey Danhauer, normally taught in spring quarter, even years.
Recommended preparation: SHS 50, 128. |
| SHS 135 |
Amplification for the Hearing Impaired (4) –
Professor Jeffrey Danhauer, normally taught in spring
quarter, odd years. Recommended preparation: SHS
50, 128, and 131. Covers methodology for rehabilitating
persons with hearing loss; emphasizes recent developments
in instrumentation and measurement techniques. Hearing
aids and real-ear analysis are used with hands-on
laboratory approach. Emphasizes interfacing amplification
to the patient and family. |
| SHS 154 |
Assessment and Treatment of Child Language Disorders
(4). Prerequisites: SHS 50, 166 and Linguistics
137. An introduction to the methods used in the
identification and remediation of child language
disorders. Assessment and treatment of morphologic,
pragmatic, syntactic, and semantic disorders will
be discussed. |
| SHS 155 |
Assessment and Treatment of Child Phonologic Disorders
(4) Professor Janis Costello Ingham, normally taught
in winter quarter. (Will not be taught in 2004-5).
Prerequisites: SHS 50, 120, 166 and Linguistics
137. A study of principles and methods for assessing
children's speech production to determine existence
of phonologic disorders and a review of varieties
of treatment methods for such disorders. |
| SHS 166 |
Principles of Behavior Modification (4) –
Professor Roger Ingham, normally taught in fall
quarter. . (Will be taught winter quarter, 2004-5.)Prerequisite:
Psychology 1. Basic principles of operant conditioning
and their use in classroom, family, and clinical
environments with special reference to speech-language
pathology. |
| SHS 167 |
Introduction to Stuttering (4) – Professor Roger
Ingham, normally taught in spring quarter. Prerequisites:
SHS 50, 166. Review and analysis of features and
characteristics of stuttering, the areas and causes
of stuttering, conditions that modify stuttering,
and current therapies for stuttering. |
| SHS 182 |
Undergraduate Thesis (4) – all SHS faculty,
all quarters. (Required for interdisciplinary major
students.) Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Independent work with faculty sponsor culminating
in senior thesis. |
| SHS 194 |
Group Studies for Advanced Students (1-4) - all faculty,
all quarters. Prerequisites: upper-division standing
and consent of instructor. May be repeated for a
maximum of 6 units. Selected topics in accordance
with instructor's area of specialization. |
| SHS 197 |
Instructional Laboratory (1-4) - all SHS faculty,
all quarters. Prerequisites: senior standing, consent
of instructor. Students must have a 3.0 overall
grade-point-average. Tutoring experience for advanced
undergraduate students in preparation for graduate
education. |
| SHS 199 |
Independent Studies (1-4) - all SHS faculty, all quarters.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Students must
have a minimum 3.o GPA for the preceding three quarters
and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units
total in all 98/99/198/199/199DC/199RA courses combined. |
Completion of SHS 121, 128, 131, and 135 qualifies students for the audiometrist credential. |
