A minor in Hearing and Speech Sciences will provide in-depth training for undergraduates interested in becoming scientists and/or clinicians in health-related fields. This minor will help stimulate students’ interest in hearing and speech as well as increase their opportunities to be admitted to postgraduate programs in audiology, speech-language pathology, biomedical engineering, psychology, neuroscience, medicine and other allied areas.

A minor in Hearing and Speech Sciences will provide in-depth training for undergraduates interested in becoming scientists and/or clinicians in health-related fields. This minor helps stimulate students’ interest in hearing and speech as well as increases their opportunities to be admitted to postgraduate programs in audiology, speech-language pathology, biomedical engineering, psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and other allied areas.

Students who major in the School of Social Sciences can overlap up to two courses between their major and this minor.

Requirements for the minor in Hearing and Speech Sciences are met by taking eight courses (32 units) as specified below.

Hearing and Speech Sciences Minor Requirements

A. Methodological Foundations (select one course from each category):
Statistics 1
COGS 10A- 10B- 10C	Exploratory Data Analysis and Probability and Inference and Statistical Models
EDUC 15	Statistics for Education Research
MGMT 7	Statistics for Business Decision Making
PUBHLTH 7A	Public Health Statistics I
SOC SCI 10A- 10B- 10C	Probability and Statistics in Social Sciences I and Probability and Statistics in Social Sciences II and Probability and Statistics in Social Sciences III
SOCECOL 13	Statistical Analysis in Social Ecology
STATS 7	Basic Statistics
STATS 8	Introduction to Biological Statistics
STATS 120A- 120B- 120C	Introduction to Probability and Statistics I and Introduction to Probability and Statistics II and Introduction to Probability and Statistics III
Technical Toolbox
I&C SCI 31	Introduction to Programming
LSCI 107M	Computational Methods for Language Research
LSCI 109	Special Topics in Computational Linguistics
MATH 3A	Introduction to Linear Algebra
MATH 113A	Mathematical Modeling in Biology I
STATS 6	Introduction to Data Science
Or an additional class from the Statistics category (listed above).
Research
BIO SCI 199	Independent Study in Biological Sciences Research
BME 199	Individual Study
COGS 199	Individual Study
EDUC 199	Individual Study
LSCI 153M	Experimental Research in Language Science
LSCI 195A- 195B- 195C	Language Science Research I and Language Science Research II and Language Science Research III
LSCI 199	Independent Study
MATH 199A- 199B- 199C	Special Studies in Mathematics and Special Studies in Mathematics and Special Studies in Mathematics
B. Content Foundations (select at least one course from each category)
Mind and Brain
BIO SCI N110	Neurobiology and Behavior
COGS 160A	Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
Hearing Science
BIO SCI N147	Hearing and the Brain
Language Science
LSCI 3	Introduction to Linguistics
LSCI 10	Introduction to Phonology
LSCI 51/COGS 56L	Acquisition of Language
LSCI 155/COGS 150	Psychology of Language
C. Advanced Topics (select at least two courses)
BIO SCI N152	Developmental Neurobiology
COGS 131B	Hearing
LSCI 116	Introduction to Speech Science
LSCI 117	Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics
LSCI 158/COGS 161	Language and the Brain
LSCI 169	Special Topics in Language Studies

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For students with majors within the School of Social Sciences, one statistics course in addition to the School requirement must be completed. For students with majors outside of the School of Social Sciences, at least one statistics course is required. Other statistics courses may be approved for substitution.