Courses

The Capstone Certificate is earned upon completion of at least 18 credits (minimum), over the course of one academic year (fall & spring). Students generally complete the program in 2-3 semesters.

Most Capstone Certificate students will take all nine courses (24 credits total), but in some cases one or two courses may be waived depending on coursework taken previously, during the undergraduate degree; the minimum number of credits required for the certificate is 18.

We would like to avoid having courses listed as admission requirements and would like to keep the 18-credit minimum. However, we would like to list all 9 courses as options to fulfil the 18-credit requirement. Meaning the students would choose 18 of the 27 credits listed to complete their capstone certificate. Our Capstone advisor would work with each student individually to develop their plan, based on the Graduate Program(s) they plan to apply to. This would keep our certificate minimum at 18 but give students the flexibility to complete up to 27 credits, if
needed – all while keeping our Capstone admission requirements the same as they are now.

Although the Capstone certificate is beneficial on many levels, one of the main purposes of the certificate is to help students meet the course requirements for various CSD Graduate Programs. We think this structure would allow the flexibility we are looking for, while not impacting our recruitment efforts.

Requirements for spring enrollment: Each semester, students must earn a minimum of 3.0 grade point average (and a minimum grade of C in each CSD course).

Students must complete at least 18 credits from the following courses (enroll in at least 6; 18 Credits Total).

9 Core CS&D Capstone Certificate Courses:

• CS&D 201: Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Production (3 cr)
• CS&D 202: Hearing Science (3 cr)
• CS&D 210: Neural Basis of Communication (3 cr)
• CS&D 240: Language Development in Children and Adolescents (3 cr)
• CS&D 315: Phonetics and Phonological Development (3 cr)
• CS&D 320: Introduction to Audiology (3 cr)
• CS&D 371: Pre-Clinical Observation of Children and Adults (3 cr)
• CS&D 425: Auditory Rehabilitation (3 cr)
• CS&D 440: Child Language Disorders, Assessment and Intervention (3 cr)

Recommended Course Plan

Optional Coursework

Prospective Capstone Certificate Program students should also be aware that many graduate programs require additional coursework as part of admission into their clinical graduate programs.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) standards have changed for 2020. Standard IV-A now requires one course in each of the following areas for clinical certification.

• Biological Sciences (such as Biology, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Genetics, and
  so forth)
• Physical Sciences (Physics or Chemistry)
• Statistics course
• Social Science

Capstone Certificate Program students may also choose to enroll in optional CS&D coursework that is not part of the capstone program (i.e., not counted towards the required 18 credits of the Capstone Certificate).

• CS&D 110: Normal Aspects of Hearing (3 cr.)
• CS&D 120: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity (3 cr.)
• CS&D 303: Acoustics (3 cr.)
• CS&D 318: Craniofacial and Fluency Disorders (3 cr.)
• CS&D 424: Sign Language I (3 cr)
• CS&D 434: Sign Language II (3 cr)