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Audiology - AuD


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Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

The Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University offers a clinical Doctorate of Audiology (AuD). The program provides students with a broad, yet in-depth, academic, and practicum-based curriculum to prepare them to become certified audiologists in a variety of settings. Graduates have the skills to function at a high level of expertise in such environments as hearing and balance clinics, hospitals, private practice, research laboratories, hearing conservation programs, elementary schools, the military,and so on.

The program is a four-year post-baccalaureate residency program, with a long history, as it was the first of its kind in the Intermountain and Pacific West states.  In addition, USU is in the forefront of research in counseling, hearing aids, speeh perception, hidden hearing loss, person-centered care, and telehealth applications in audiology. The AuD enables graduates to enter the field at a professional level and begin a rewarding career in hearing healthcare.

Course Requirements


A. Required Courses


All students admitted to the AuD program must complete the following courses prior to beginning their first semester in the graduate program: hearing science and basic audiology. For those with undergraduate degrees other than communicative disorders, foundational coursework in neural bases of communication, normal speech and language development, and statistics is required. All foundational courses can be completed online in the summer prior to admission or during the first year of the AuD program.  See COMDDE Website for additional inforamation regarding foundational courses.  

Additionally, the following graduate courses must be completed:

Note:


1 In order to earn the required number of credits, students must take this course, which is repeatable for credit, during more than one semester.

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