Course Requirements
1. Core Courses on Language Acquisition and Impairments (16 hrs minimum for Ph.D.)
- LING 709 (3): First Language Acquisition
- LING739 (3) First Language Acquisition II
- PSYC 783/LING 782 (3): Research Methods in Child Language2
- LING 822 (3): Seminar on Acquisition of Language
2 of:
- SPLH 816 (3): Language Development
- SPLH 840 (2): Language Disorders of Infants and Toddlers
- SPLH 842 (2): Language Disorders of Preschoolers
- SPLH 844 (2): Language Disorders of School Age
- CLDP880 Seminar in Child Language
- CLDP 964 Seminar in Child Language
2. Statistical and Methodological Courses (15 hrs minimum for Ph.D.)
Statistical Courses (at least 12 hours)
- a. PSYC 790 (4): Statistical Methods I
b. at least 2 courses selected from among:
- PSYC 887 (4): Factor Analysis
- PSYC 889 (4): Nonparametric Statistics
- PSYC 892 (4): Test Theory
- PSYC 893 (4): Multivariate Analysis
- PSYC 894 (4): Multivariate Modeling I
- PSYC 895 (4): Categorical Data
- PSYC 896 (4): Structural Equation Modeling I
- CLDP 944 Multilevel Models for Longitudinal and Repeated Measures Data
- CLDP 945 Advanced Multilevel Models
- CLDP 948 Latent Trait Measurement and Structural Equation Models
Methodological Courses (at least 3 hours)
- SPLH/PSYC 982 (3): Issues in Scientific Conduct
- Or select from among
- PSYC 815 (3): Developmental Research Methods
- PSYC 816 (3): Design and Analysis for Neuroimaging Research
- PSYC 818 (3): Experimental Research Methods
3. Supplemental Courses (24 hours minimum for Ph.D., at least 9 hrs in one area)
a. Linguistics and Psycholinguistics*
- LING 622: Grammar
- LING 700: Introduction to Linguistic Science
- LING 705: Phonetics I
- LING 707: Phonetics II
- LING 708: Problems in Linguistic Analysis
- LING 712: Phonology I
- LING 714: Phonology II
- LING 715: Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
- LING 725: Syntax I
- LING 726: Syntax II
- LING 731: Semantics I
- LING 738: Neurolinguistics
- LING 739: The Acquisition of Morphosyntax
- LING 783: Computational Linguistics
- LING 810: Ethnolinguistics
- PSYC 536: Psychology of Language
- PSYC 550: Psychology of Reading
- PSYC 725: Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSYC 735: Psycholinguistics
- PSYC 800: Experimental Psychology
- PSYC 831: Advanced Human Learning and Memory
b. Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 825: Social Development
- PSYC 870: Cognitive Development
- PSYC 872: Attention, Perception and Learning in Infancy
- PSYC 923: Developmental Science
c. Language Disorders
- SPLH 820: Developmental Phonological Disorders
- SPLH 846: Language Disorders of Adults
- SPLH 850: Language Disorders Secondary to Closed Head Injury and Dementia
- SPLH 854: Reading Disorders
- SPLH 860: Evaluation of Speech and Language
- SPLH 880: Seminar in Speech-Language Pathology
- SPLH 966: Seminar in Language Development
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- LING = Linguistics
- PSYC = Psychology
- SPLH = Speech-Language-Hearing