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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - SPA5132
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2003-09-22
- Department: CSD
- College: BC
- Budget Account Number: 121900000
- Contact Person: Arthur M. Guilford, Ph.D.
- Phone: 49790
- Email: Guilford@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: SPA
- Number: 5132
- Full Title: Instrumentation
- Credit Hours: 2
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Instrumentation
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: SPA 5120 Psychoacoustics, SPA 6930 Math and Physics, SPA 5506 Clinic Lab I
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: Instruction in the use of clinical and laboratory instrumentation. Emphasis placed on electronic circuitry, signal generation, filtering, and calibration. Hands-on experience with equipment typically used in clinical auditory research will be provided.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course is necessary for the new Doctor of Audiology Program
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is part of a required sequence. This course would not service any other programs.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 2 times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Au.D. or Ph.D.
- Objectives: 1. Develop an understanding of clinical and laboratory equipment commonly found in speech and hearing facilities including transducers, filters, attenuators, amplifiers, oscilloscopes, resonators, multimeters, cables, connectors, and sound level meters.
2. Develop a working understanding of electronic circuitry, a foundation for future hearing aid courses.
3. Develop an understanding of the stimuli used to test hearing and ways to check the calibration of those stimuli.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an understanding of clinical and laboratory equipment commonly found in speech and hearing facilities including transducers, filters, attenuators, amplifiers, oscilloscopes, resonators, multimeters, cables, connectors, and sound level meters.
2. Develop a working understanding of electronic circuitry, a foundation for future hearing aid courses.
3. Develop an understanding of the stimuli used to test hearing and ways to check the calibration of those stimuli.
- Major Topics: Instruction in the use of clinical and laboratory instrumentation. Emphasis will be placed on electronic circuitry, signal generation, filtering, and calibration. Hands-on experience with equipment typically used in clinical auditory research will be provided.
- Textbooks: Silverman, F. (1999). Fundamentals of Electronics for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Allyn and Bacon.
Curtis and Shultz (1986). Basic Laboratory Instrumentation for Speech and Hearing. Little, Brown, and Co.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.