The Bachelor of Science in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences is designed for students interested in studying human communication sciences and disorders. Many students with undergraduate degrees in speech, language & hearing sciences pursue graduate professional training for careers as speech-language pathologists or audiologists. Other students choose a wide diversity of career directions after graduating from the undergraduate program, including, but not limited to, education, research, medicine, public health, and law, or become a speech-language pathology or audiology assistant.
For the undergraduate degree, coursework is taken in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, both within the major and through BU Hub requirements, and in areas related to human communication, such as linguistics, phonetics, anatomy and physiology, and language acquisition. In pre-professional study, students are introduced to the evaluation and treatment of communication disorders. Electives are chosen according to individual interest. Students in this major are eligible to apply for the Sargent College Senior Thesis for Distinction.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
Show measurable progress in the basic foundation knowledge that underlies research and clinical work in speech, language, and hearing sciences.
Apply hearing science, disability awareness, and audiological testing to an analysis of the effects of hearing loss on a specific individual that includes remediation recommendations.
Analyze clinic patients, research lab experiences or other in-depth data to develop skills that can apply directly to their graduate school and/or post-BS employment opportunities.
Interpret data from a speaker with a phonological disorder and support their conclusions by justifying the scope of their analyses, using primary journal articles and providing a coherent summary of their thought process.
Apply their coursework in an integrative way to situations in a clinical, research and/or other professional setting to complete a project or other duties assigned by the internship supervisor.
