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Prep Program Courses
Detailed below are the courses that will be taken in the SLP Prep Program. For students who are not members of the SLP Prep Cohort and wish to enroll in SLP Prep courses via Open University, Summer 2025 courses will open on April 30, 2025. If there is availability in the class, students can enroll by following the CSUSM Open University Enrollment Process.
| Course | Course Title/Description |
| SLP 150 | Introduction to Communicative Sciences and Disorders |
| SLP 251 | Language Development and Assessment for Practitioners |
| SLP 320 | Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism (ASHA Biological Sciences) |
| SLP 357 or PHYS 357 | The Science of Speech and Hearing (ASHA Physical Sciences) |
| SLP 364 | Cultural Diversity in Schooling (ASHA Social/Behavioral Sciences) |
| SLP 391 | Clinical Phonetics and Analysis of Disordered Speech |
| SLP 450 | Diagnostics for Speech Language Pathologists |
| SLP 482 | Audiology and Aural (Re)Habilitation |
| SLP 491 | Neural Correlates in Speech-Language and Swallowing Functions |
| MATH 142 | Basic Statistics (OR PSYC 220) (ASHA Statistics) |
ASHA Basic Science Requirements
In accordance with the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) 2020 certification standards (standard IV-A), applicants must have demonstrated knowledge in the following areas through academic coursework. The CSUSM prerequisite courses identified above in BOLD satisfy each of the ASHA coursework requirements.
- Biological Sciences: Human or animal biology
- Physical sciences: Physics or Chemistry
- Social/behavioral sciences, and
- Statistics: stand alone, NOT research methods