To Start, You Need
- A degree from an accredited undergraduate institution. The most competitive candidates will have an overall GPA of at least 3.0.
Finishing Will Take
- Six semesters over two years
- 400 hours of a supervised clinical practicum
- Completing a thesis or passing comprehensive examinations
You Can Begin Your Degree In
Fall 2025
You Will Take Classes
On campus and full time
Where This Degree Can Take You
- Into any business or field that needs qualified speech language pathologists, such as education and healthcare settings and organizations
- Into a speech language pathology doctoral program
What You Will Learn:
- To function in the many and varied clinical situations
- The knowledge and skills needed to serve a diverse client base
- The knowledge, skills, and reflective practices necessary for entry-level speech language pathologists
Mission of the Department of Speech Language Pathology
The mission of the Department of Speech Language Pathology is to prepare and educate students who are dedicated to the service of persons from infancy to maturity with communication, cognitive and swallowing disabilities. Students will be capable of interacting effectively in a variety of service and employment settings. This goal is achieved through a curriculum that integrates academic rigor, research methods and evidence based clinical practice all built upon a strong foundation of social responsibility. Goals The Department of Speech Language Pathology:
- Prepares students with a wide theoretical base for understanding the normal development of basic human communication and swallowing processes as well as the nature, causes, evaluation, and treatment of disorders of swallowing and communication, including issues pertaining to culturally diverse populations.
- Provides a variety of opportunities for supervised student clinical education with persons across the life cycle who are delayed or disordered in the development or use of communication, cognitive, and/or swallowing.
- Provides opportunities for academic, and clinical faculty and students work together to develop competence in clinical diagnosis and intervention, interactions with families of individuals with communicative impairments, and collaboration with other professionals for effective and efficient team management of persons with complex disabilities.
- Strives always to value diversity of persons, both in culture and opinion and encourage an attitude of openness and discovery among students, faculty, and staff
- Challenges faculty, staff, and students to actively involve themselves in meeting the needs of their communities, as highly skilled professionals and good citizens.
- Strongly promote and instill in the students and each other to value scientific rigor, a spirit of inquiry, and the use of evidence-based practice among future professionals.
- Empower graduates to function independently as lifelong learners, pursuers of social responsibility, and ambassadors for the profession.
- Provide a faith-based education for students as they enter the profession by integrating the Catholic perspective throughout the knowledge and skills of the profession. Encourage students to realize their social responsibility first-hand by providing services to those in need.
- Prepare students for eligibility for clinical certification (CCC) in speech language pathology through the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
Additional Resources
External Practicum Handbook 2024-2025