Courses
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- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Admission to Respiratory program.
Student will work in hospital bedside care and pulmonary rehab environments under supervision, acquiring and evaluating clinical data, setting up equipment, initiating and performing prescribed therapies, delivering medications, teaching patients and evaluating effects. This experience will extend into the summer.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277 and RSP 374.
Study of etiologies and pathologies of critical respiratory abnormalities, disease and injuries from neonatal through geriatric. Effects of congenital defects, acquired conditions, traumas and multiple system failures upon ventilation and respiration.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, and RSP 374.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, and RSP 374.
- Offered: Summer
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, and RSP 374.
Concepts of mechanical ventilation, early efforts and why they worked. Physiologic capabilties, indications, limitations of mechanical ventilators and factors affecting, shaping and controlling mechanical breaths. Classification of mechanical ventilators and making adjustments for desired effects.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, and RSP 374.
Students will work under supervision in hospital intensive care and neonatal intensive care environments, assessing acutely ill patients, performing and evaluating therapies, and setting up, adjusting and monitoring mechanical ventilation. The emphasis in this course is the technical nature of mechanical ventilation.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of RSP 271 through RSP 277, RSP 371 through RSP 375, and RSP 377.
Students will work under supervision in a hospital environment with a concentration in adjusting and monitoring mechanical ventilation on critical care adult and neonate patients. Students will incorporate diagnostic information to guide decisions regarding ventilator management of critically ill patients. Critical thinking skills will be used to prepare cases for clinical care conferences.
- Offered: At least once a year
An introduction to Russian language and culture.
- Offered: After every two RUS 101 offerings
- Prerequisites: RUS 101.
RUS 102 is a continuation of RUS 101, where students will continue to study the Russian language and culture of the people who speak it.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
A survey of translated works of literature from Russia, stressing historical development and comparative analysis.
Notes:Cross Listed with EN 311 World Literature: Russia.
- Offered: Fall Winter
Introduction to modern linguistic theory and the biological, cognitive, and cultural bases of human communication. Emphasis is placed on the role of language in society including language variation and the social valuation of dialects. Students will be introduced to disorders of communication and the professions that evaluate and treat these disorders.
- Offered: Fall
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SL 150 and SL 160 or instructor permission.
Study of the acoustic and physiological bases for phonetic transcription of normal and disordered speech. Instruction in phonology and articulation of sounds of general American dialect, their disorders, assessment and treatment.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 150 or instructor permission.
Study of normal dysfluency, stuttering and cluttering. The development, measurement and treatment of stuttering are emphasized.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 150, SL 160 and SL 200.
Study of the anatomy, physiology and acoustics in the production of perception of speech. Discussion of the normal parameters of voice. Introduction to the nature of voice disorders.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SL 150, SL 160 or instructor permission.
The basic physics of sound, anatomy and physiology of the ear, pure tone testing and pathologies of the hearing mechanism.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SL 150 and SL 200 or instructor permission.
Theories and conceptual models of language development in the young child. The roles of syntax, semantics and phonology are discussed in relationship to linguistic and developmental theories.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 355 or instructor permission.
The theoretical language disorders in children with a focus on the practical aspects of assessment and treatment.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SL 150, SL 160 and junior standing, or instructor permission.
This course will introduce etiology and characteristics of neurogenic communication disorders, including aphasia, right hemisphere disorder, apraxia, and dysarthria, as well as swallowing disorders or dysphagia. It will include anatomical and physiological aspects, as well as basics of evaluation and treatment of these disorders.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 150, SL 160, SL 200, SL 355, junior standing or instructor permission.
Students complete 25 hours of supervised clinical observation as required by the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 160, SL 200, SL 355 and junior standing or instructor permission.
The assessment and treatment of children with speech sound disorders resulting from phonological, articulatory, neuromotor, and/or structural etiologies.