With an emphasis on best practices and applying research, the integrated classroom and clinical education in Pitt's Audiology program is like no other. Choose to participate in research projects mentored by expert faculty and benefit from a coordinator to guide your externship search. The Audiology curriculum offers you extensive hands-on experiences with a focus on:
- Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in hearing and balance across the lifespan
- Interdisciplinary assessment and practice
- Rehabilitation/management of hearing and balance disorders
- Critical consumption of research
Program Director
Dr. Catherine Palmer, program director, has championed life-changing interventions in audiology for patients of all ages. View how she’s changing every day health care practices to help patients get better, faster through the video below. Palmer recently served as president of the American Academy of Audiology and is currently the director of Audiology and Hearing Aids at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center including the UPMC Children's Hospital.
AuD Curriculum
- CSD 2021 - CLINICAL PROCEDURES LAB 1-1
- CSD 2022 - CLINICAL PROCEDURES LAB 2-2
- CSD 2029 - IMPLANTABLES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
- CSD 2036 - EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF TINNITUS AND SOUND INTOLERANCE
- CSD 2040 - AUDIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
- CSD 2041 - MANAGEMENT OF HEARING LOSS
- CSD 2042 - AUDIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT LAB
- CSD 2044 - DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- CSD 2043 - FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY FOR AUDIOLOGISTS
- CSD 2045 - PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
- CSD 2047 - AMPLIFICATION 1
- CSD 2051 - CLINICAL PROCEDURES LAB 1-2
- CSD 2052 - CLINICAL PROCEDURES LAB 2-3
- CSD 2053 - CLINICAL PROCEDURES LAB 2-1
- CSD 2055 - PEDIATRIC AUDIOLOGIC REHABILATATION
- CSD 2056 - AUDIOLOGY PRACTICUM NETWORK - AUD (3 terms) - Variable credits
- CSD 2057 - AUDIOLOGY PRACTICUM OUTPLACEMENT (5 terms) - Variable credits
- CSD 2060 - PROSEMINAR - MA (6 terms)
- CSD 2078 - PHYSICS, PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF SOUND
- CSD 2087 - HEARING CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION
- CSD 2081 - RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
- CSD 2085 - AUD SCREENING AND PREVENTION PRACTICUM
- CSD 2101 - DATA AND STATISTICAL LITERACY
- CSD 2103 - PROFESSIONAL WRITING FOR AUDIOLOGISTS
- CSD 2110 - NEUROSCIENCE OF COMMUNICATION
- CSD 2162 - COUNSELING STRATEGIES FOR AUD AND SLP
- CSD 2251 - VESTIBULAR ASSESSMENT AND REHABILATATION
- CSD 2252 - ADVANCED PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
- CSD 2451 - AUDIOLOGY MASTERS COMPREHENSIVE
- CSD 2454 - AMPLIFICATION 2
- CSD 2456 - SPEECH PERCEPTION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
- CSD 2600 - INTER-PROFESSIONAL ROTATION
- CSD 2601 - SUPERVISION
- CSD 2602 - EDUCATIONAL AUDIOLOGY
- CSD 2652 - ADVANCED CLINICAL SEMINAR 3-1
- CSD 2654 - PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
- CSD 2657 - ADVANCED CLINICAL SEMINAR 3-3
- CSD 2661 - ADVANCED CLINICAL SEMINAR 3-2
- CSD 2971 - RESEARCH PRACTICUM
- Comprehensive Examination II
- CSD 2659 - AUDIOLOGY EXTERNSHIP (3 terms)
- CSD 2655 - ADVANCED CLINICAL SEMINAR 4-1
- CSD 2660 - ADVANCED CLINICAL SEMINAR 4-2
- CSD 2658 - ADVANCED CLINICAL SEMINAR 4-3
- CSD 2046 - PEDIATRIC EVALUATION