Degree Requirements (Minimum 69 Hours)

The department’s master’s degrees are designed to ensure that its graduates obtain the academic course work and clinical experiences necessary to meet the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) standards for the Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP). As such, the curricula require a minimum of 69 semester hours of academic course work plus the completion of 375 clock hours of supervised clinical practicum. Virtually all master’s degree graduates, however, exceed these minimums, with most completing as much as 80 semester hours of study. Courses comprising the master’s degree curriculum fall within three basic content areas: Basic Communication Sciences, Professional Coursework, and Clinical Practicum.