Courses
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- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 320, SL 351 and junior standing or instructor permission.
This course examines the effects of hearing loss on verbal communication. Methods of providing speech and language services for pediatric and adult clients who exhibit various severities of hearing loss are highlighted. Educational options for children who are deaf and services that will benefit the child’s development are also explored.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 150, SL 355 and SL 356, senior standing or instructor permission.
A review of the literature regarding language and learning disabilities in children. Biological and linguistic aspects of these disturbances are stressed.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Choose one of the following: BI 104, BI 111, BI 207, BI 208, BI 203, BI 206, BI 221, BI 225, BI 312, or PY 204 and senior standing.
The structure and organization of the human central and peripheral nervous systems with emphasis on their functional relationship to human cognition and communication. Laboratory.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: PSY 100, senior standing or instructor permission. (Gerontology minor permitted with PSY 100).
Examination of basic cognitive processes such as attention, perception and memory within the context of adulthood and aging. Pathological conditions that affect cognition such as traumatic brain injury and dementia will also be discussed.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SL 200, SL 355, SL 356, junior standing or instructor permission.
Instruction and practice in the clinical procedures relative to the evaluation, measurement and treatment of communication disorders in children and adults. Academic service learning is included.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SL 370 and senior standing.
Practicum hours involve provision of evaluation and treatment to clients from the community who have communication or swallowing disorders. Treatment will be conducted at the NMU Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic and will be supervised by a certified instructor. Components of the treatment process will include: data keeping, designing behavioral objectives, counseling concepts, feedback systems, behavioral management, SOAP notes, writing treatment summaries and implementation of treatment methods. Clinical practicum hours will be arranged by the instructor.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SL 356 and SL 400 or instructor permission
This course examines contemporary ethics and issues. Regulations and requirements for professional practice such as certifications, licensure, and other local, state, and national policies will be discussed. Legislative issues and third-party reimbursement issues will be included. Other aspects of discussion include academic accreditation as well as ASHA practice policies and guidelines.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: Must be an admitted degree-seeking student in the Speech, Language Hearing Sciences Program, SL 465 AND instructor permission.
This course is an off-campus clinical practicum conducted at an education or medical site. It is designed for students who do not plan to attend graduate training in speech-language pathology. Students will implement treatment in the designated setting while assisted and supervised by a certified speech-language pathologist employed at that site.
- Offered: On demand
- Prerequisites: Junior standing in the major or instructor permission.
This seminar focuses on evidence-based practice in speech, language, and hearing sciences. Students will frame clinical questions, and search for and then assess primary and secondary sources. Students will write article-length, peer-reviewed papers that provide evidence for clinical practice on topics related to the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology.
Notes: May be repeated if topic varies.- Offered: On demand
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor permission.
Short, intensive workshop regarding new developments.
- Offered: On demand
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor permission.
Topics of special interest to students and faculty.
- Offered: On demand
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor permission.
Topics of special interest to students and faculty.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: SL 465, senior status, minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 and permission of clinic director.
An optional clinical experience. Students apply to the clinic director for consideration.
- Offered: On demand
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor permission.
An intensive study of special problems under the guidence of a faculty member in speech, language and hearing sciences.
- Offered: Fall Winter
SN 101 is an introduction to the Spanish language and cultures of the people who speak it. Students learn rudimentary “survival” skills such as social pleasantries, shopping, exchanging money, eating in restaurants, talking about family, school and weather.
- Offered: Fall Winter
SN 102 is a continuation of SN 101. Students add to their proficiency in matters such as those related to health, free time, employment, travel and talking about the past cultures of the Hispanic world.
Notes: Students should pass SN 101 with a "C" or better or one year of high school Spanish prior to this course. Students may take the language placement exam for concerns about proper placement. Contact mll@nmu.edu with questions.- Offered: Fall Winter
SN 201 reviews all grammar and major topics from SN 101 and 102. This course incorporates more reading, writing and conversation than first-year courses and explores more matters dealing with Hispanic cultures. Students expand their proficiency into areas such as expressing opinions and persuading.
Notes: Students should pass SN 102 with a "C" or better or two years of high school Spanish prior to this course. Students may take the language placement exam for concerns about proper placement. Contact mll@nmu.edu with questions.- Offered: Fall Winter
SN 202 is a continuation of SN 201. Students do considerably more reading and writing than in prior courses. The course expands their cultural and linguistic proficiency.
Notes: Students should pass SN 201 with a "C" or better or three years of high school Spanish prior to this course. Students may take the language placement exam for concerns about proper placement. Contact mll@nmu.edu with questions.- Offered: Contact Department
In its “creative treatment of actuality” (Grieson), film selects, imagines, and re-considers stories to bring to light concerns about racial tensions, ethnicity, environmental problems, memory, identity, and gender and class divisions. This course offers, through the study of a selection of Latin American films from 2000 to the present, a multidisciplinary perspective of the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latin American populations.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Written department permission.
Apprentice work and activities that require students to use their knowledge of Spanish and develop their competency in the language. This includes such things as oral expression, appreciation of grammatical structure, proofreading and editing skills, research skills in Spanish and skills in teaching Spanish to others.
Notes:May be taken for a maximum of two credits.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or equivalent.
This course develops learner Spanish skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) as an organic whole at the Advanced level. This course and its partner (SN 302: Advanced Spanish II) undertake a comprehensive review and expansion of the Spanish grammar system.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or equivalent.
This course develops learner Spanish skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) as an organic whole at the Advanced level. This course and its partner (SN 301: Advanced Spanish I) undertake a comprehensive review and expansion of the Spanish grammar system.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302 or instructor’s permission.
This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to the culture and civilization of Spain. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical, geographical, political and economic factors that have helped shape today’s Spanish society.
Notes: SN 310 is taught in Spanish.- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: SN 301 or SN 302, EN 211, and sophomore standing.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: SN 202 or department head approval.
Students will learn about the culture of a particular country or countries through a combination of class sessions on the campus of Northern Michigan University and a faculty-led study abroad.
Notes: May be repeated for credit if topic varies. Cross-listed with IP 313X and HS 313X.