Do you want to earn the skills needed to help others express themselves? Do you want to prepare for an advanced degree toward becoming a speech-language pathologist?
The undergraduate program in speech and hearing sciences is a pre-professional degree, which emphasizes the normal processes of speech, hearing and language and allows you to explore other academic areas of interest.
Since the master's degree is the minimum level of preparation for persons seeking professional careers in this field, the BS degree does not qualify you to work professionally, but is designed to prepare you for graduate studies. After you earn a master's degree, you can choose to work as a trained professional who diagnoses and treats people who are unable to communicate effectively.
You would apply to the BS in speech and hearing sciences in the spring semester of your sophomore year. During your junior and senior year, you will learn about phonetics, language development, anatomy of the speech and respiratory mechanism, phonology and articulation, speech science, hearing science, audiology, aural rehabilitation, and neural processing in speech and language. During your career as a speech-language pathologist, you will have maximum patient contact and must be able to communicate effectively with individuals with disabilities. You must have a sincere interest in the handicapped population, with particular interest in communication problems.
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