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 communication disorders.
Get started right away - and finish on time.
With direct admission to the speech pathology and audiology major, you'll begin taking your major courses in your first term. And you'll graduate in four years.
Solid curriculum.
Marquette's major in speech pathology and audiology offers the academic coursework needed to eventually meet the certification requirements of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
On-site clinicals.
Supervised by faculty who are certified and licensed speech-language pathologists and audiologists, you'll work in Marquette University Speech and Hearing Clinic with children and adults who have speech, language or hearing disorders — something many programs don't offer to their undergraduates.
Practice what you've learned.
Work with your professors as they conduct important research in areas such as child language, or as they help adults regain communication skills lost to traumatic brain injuries or strokes.
Be prepared.
Marquette's curriculum and clinicals provide you with the necessary foundation to find admission and be successful in a graduate program in speech-language pathology or audiology.
Have an edge.
Given the competitive nature of graduate school admission, our students continue to be considered desirable candidates for graduate school.
Suggested curriculum
Major courses are bolded.
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
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The speech pathology and audiology major is excellent preparation for graduate work in speech-language pathology or audiology, special education and deaf education. 