Program Overview

Speech-language Pathology, B.S.S.P.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate knowledge of normal processes in the development of speech and language comprehension and production that approaches the standard of achievement outlined by ASHA, by recognizing and recalling facts and understanding what the facts mean.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of communication and swallowing disorders that approaches the standard of achievement outlined by ASHA, by recognizing and recalling facts and understanding and applying the facts, concepts, and ideas as related to persons with communication and swallowing disorders.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of clinical methods, clinical skills and ethics related to intervention with clients who are diagnosed with communication and swallowing disorders that approaches the standard of achievement outlined by ASHA, by recognizing and recalling facts and understanding and applying the facts, concepts, and ideas as related to persons with communication and swallowing disorders.

Tulsa Curriculum and First Year Experience

Core Curriculum and First Year Experience

• ENGL 1033 Exposition and Argumentation
• ENGL 3003 Writing for the Professions
• FYE 1001 First Year Experience
• MATH 1143 Mathematical Functions
• • AHS 2013 Statistics for the Health Sciences or
  • PSY 2073 Statistics for Behavioral Psychology or
  • STAT 2013 Introduction to Statistics

General Curriculum

• Quad I: Creative Arts (6 hours)
• Quad II: Humanities (6 hours)
• Quad III: Social Sciences (6 hours)
• Quad IV: Natural and Applied Sciences (7 hours)

Speech-language Pathology Major Requirements

Foundation Courses

• CDSP 2073 Culturally Responsive Practices in Education and Healthcare
• ATRG 2603 Strategies for Healthy Living
• EDUC 3103 Children’s Literature
• EDUC 4013 Education of the Exceptional Child
• • HCDS 2013 In Sickness and In Health: Analyzing the U.S. Health Care System or
  • HCDS 3013 Healthy People, Healthy Communities
• • PSY 2253 Foundations of Psychology
• • PSY 3063 Developmental Psychology or
  • EDUC 3713 Child and Adolescent Development and Learning or
  • AHS 2133 Life Span Processes
• • BIOL 2153 Human Anatomy
  • BIOL 2151 Human Anatomy Laboratory
• • CHEM 1013 General Chemistry I
  • CHEM 1063 College Chemistry
  • PHYS 1003 Liberal Art of Physics
  • PHYS 1013 Introductory Physics I

Required Major Courses

• CDSP 1013 Introduction to Communication Disorders
• CDSP 2023 Language Development
• CDSP 2053 Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing
• CDSP 3033 Introduction to Language Disorders
• CDSP 3113 Speech Sound Disorders
• CDSP 3133 Introduction to Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• CDSP 3183 Clinical Methods
• CDSP 3203 Clinical Phonetics
• CDSP 3281 Clinical Practicum II: Speech-Language Pathology
• CDSP 4023 Professional and Multicultural Issues in Communication Disorders
• CDSP 4063 Speech and Hearing Science
• CDSP 4143 Acquired Communication Disorders
• CDSP 4163 Evaluation of Speech-Language Disorders

Audiology Core Courses

• CDAU 3203 Introduction to Clinical Audiology
• CDAU 4073 Auditory Rehabilitation
• CDAU 4353 Auditory Options for Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Major Electives or Minor Program

Students may complete a minor program of at least 12 hours or complete 12 hours from the following list of select courses:

Lower Level

• EDUC 2023 Brain, Learning, and Education
• EDUC 2033 Critical Thinking
• EDUC 2053 Parenting and Culture
• EDUC 2083 Design Thinking in Schools and Communities
• NSG 2103 Human Sexuality
• AHS 2123 Folk Healing
• PSY 2083 Psychology of Trauma
• PSY 2273 Critical Thinking in Psychology
• CDDE 1003 American Sign Language I
• CDDE 1013 American Sign Language II
• CDDE 2003 American Sign Language III
• CDDE 2013 American Sign Language IV
• Any Beginning or Intermediate language course

Upper Level

• EDUC 3513 Classroom Management
• EDUC 3143 Adolescent Literacy and Literature
• HCDS 3013 Healthy People, Healthy Communities
• ATRG 3033 Instructional Methods in Health
• ATRG 3143 Life Span Motor Development
• ATRG 3163 Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Science
• NSG 4213 Challenges of Childhood
• PSY 4223 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
• PSY 3033 Psychopathology and Clinical Science
• PSY 3053 Social Psychology
• PSY 3083 Clinical Psychology and Behavior Change
• PS 3591-3 Public Service Internship

General Electives (6 hours)

Total: 120 hours

Speech-language Pathology, B.S.S.P., Additional Requirements

All CDSP and CDAU courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher. Courses may be repeated, if necessary, to meet this requirement. Students with a GPA lower than 3.0 in major specific courses may have difficulty with admittance to graduate school programs. If academic grades in the major are consistently below 3.0, it will be recommended that the student select a different program for their major. Students with a GPA lower than 3.0 in speech-language pathology courses will enroll in clinical practicum only if recommended by faculty. Failure to pass the practicum course will result in non-recommendation for graduate study in speech-language pathology.