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Prep Program Courses
Detailed below are the courses that will be taken in the SLP Prep Certificate program.
Students who apply and complete all the SLP Prep Cohort Program courses will receive a University Speech-Language Pathology Preparation Certificate of Completion on their official transcript.
For students who are not members of the SLP Prep Cohort and wish to enroll in SLP Prep courses, please visit the SLP Prep Non-Cohort page for more information
| 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) |
Please note: Students in the cohort must earn a B- or higher in each course to earn the certificate.
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