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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - SPA6307
Tracking Number - 2364
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Current Status:
Approved, Permanent Archive - 2010-11-01
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: GC approved 11/1/10; Approved full council 11/15/10. To SCNS 11/30/10. SCNS approved effective 1/15/11. Posted in banner.
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2010-08-05
- Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
- College: BC
- Budget Account Number: 0000001219000
- Contact Person: Jennifer Lister
- Phone: 9749712
- Email: jlister@usf.edu
- Prefix: SPA
- Number: 6307
- Full Title: Speech Perception and Sensorineural Hearing loss
- Credit Hours: 3
- 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): Speech Percept. & Hearing Loss
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: SPA 5120, SPA 5303
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: The course will provide an overview of the factors involved in quantifying speech perception ability in listeners with normal and impaired hearing.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for accreditation
- 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? All Doctor of Audiology Students are required to take the course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 3 or more times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Experience in the topic area.
- Objectives: 1.To enable the student to gain an understanding of the history of speech perception research as well as the factors that affect measurement of speech perception.
2.To enable the student to gain an understanding of historical and current methods of quantifying speech recognition thresholds, word recognition ability in quiet and speech recognition in noise and to gain an understanding of the importance of these measures in listeners with hearing loss.
3.To enable the student to understand the effects of hearing loss on speech perception and its implications for communication functioning.
4.To enable the student to relate knowledge of speech perception to the application of clinical tests of speech understanding.
- Learning Outcomes: KASA Standard B6:
Phonologic, morphologic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of human communication associated with hearing impairment.
KASA Standard B7:
Normal processes of speech and language production and perception over the life span.
- Major Topics: Factors Affecting Measurement
Psychometric functions
Calibration
Factors Affecting Measurement
Presentation Mode
Response Mode
Presentation Level
Factors Affecting Measurement
Uncertainty
Redundancy
Soundfield
Speech Recognition Thresholds
Speech Recognition in Quiet
Sentences & Context
Speech Recognition in Noise
Degraded Speech pt 1
Interrupted Noise
Masking-level difference
Degraded Speech pt 2
Filtered speech
Time-compressed speech
Reverberant speech
Degraded Speech pt 3
Dichotic Speech – CVs, Digits
Binaural Fusion – Spectral, Temporal
- Textbooks: None
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: Updated annually. Current articles in the area.
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: 225 Total Possible Points:
Exam 1 – 50 points
Exam 2 – 50 points
Final Exam – 50 points
Pop Quizzes– 25 points (5 points per quiz, 5 total quizzes given at random)
Class participation– 50 points (5 points per class on the 10 nights we have discussion classes, excluding the first lecture)
COURSE GRADE ASSIGNMENT:
97-100% = A+ 87-89.9% = B+
93-96.9% = A 83-86.9% = B
90-92.9% = A- 80-82.9% = B-
and so on in the same manner for C, D.
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: ASSIGNMENTS: Students are required to complete the assigned readings for a topic prior to the class for which the topic is listed. A reading guide will be posted on Blackboard for each class to help highlight important items in each article. Written answers to the questions in the reading guides will not be collected, however, verbal responses in class will be required.
In addition, each week you will be responsible for bringing to class one question or response of your own per required article that is of interest to you. Remember more than 20% of your grade is dependent on class participation.
- Attendance Policy: ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance in class is required. Any absences should be discussed with the instructor in advance. If you need to be absent due to medical reasons (yours or your immediate family's) on a test day or a day that an assignment is due, please provide a physician's note and notify me prior to class. Participation points can be earned for an excused absence by turning in written responses to the reading guide questions that pertain to the topic covered the night of the absence. The written responses are due prior to the next class meeting. If you are absent due to an unexcused absence you will not be allowed to make up the participation points.
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES: Students are expected to notify their instructors at the beginning of each academic term if they intend to be absent for a class or announced examination. Students absent for religious reasons, as noticed to the instructor at the beginning of each academic term, will be given reasonable opportunities to make up any work missed. For further information, please refer to: http://generalcounsel.usf.edu/policies-and-procedures/pdfs/policy-10-045.pdf
- Policy on Make-up Work: Participation points can be earned for an excused absence by turning in written responses to the reading guide questions that pertain to the topic covered the night of the absence. The written responses are due prior to the next class meeting.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY/ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Any form of cheating on examinations or plagiarism on assigned papers constitutes unacceptable deceit and dishonesty. Disruption of the classroom or teaching environment is also unacceptable. The University of South Florida has very specific policies and procedures regarding academic dishonesty or disruption of academic process.
If you have any questions, please refer to the University’s Academic Dishonesty policy at
• Procedures for Alleged Academic Dishonesty or Disruption:
• http://www.ugs.usf.edu/catalogs/0809/adadap.htm
• Student Academic Grievance Procedures -- http://www.ugs.usf.edu/catalogs/0809/arcsagp.htm
- Program This Course Supports: Doctor of Audiology
- Course Concurrence Information: Speech-Language Pathology, Special Education
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.