BSpPath(Hons)
Credit points
320
Minimum duration
4 years full-time.
Approved locations
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- North Sydney
EFTSL value of units : All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.
Admission requirements
An applicant must also comply with the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy.
To be eligible to apply for admission to the Honours program, a student must have completed 160 cp from years 1 and 2 of the Bachelor of Speech Pathology pass degree, with a grade point average of at least 5.50 on the ACU seven point scale.
Disclaimer: The course entry requirements above are for 2021 Admission.
Completion requirements
To qualify for the Bachelor of Speech Pathology Honours degree a student must complete 320 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:
- 30 cp from Inter-professional Units (Part A)
- 140 cp from Honours Speech Pathology Theory Units (Part B)
- 50 cp from Honours Integration and Practice Units (Part C)
- 80 cp from Honours units (Part D)
- 20 cp from Core Curriculum Units (Part E)
Exit points
A student who has successfully completed 230 cp from units, and 10 cp from Core Curriculum units may exit from the course with following qualification:
- Bachelor of Allied Health
Progression requirements
Students are required to follow the pattern of unit enrolment set out in the relevant Course Enrolment Guide, unless otherwise approved by the Course Coordinator.
In all aspects of progress through the course, students will be advised by the Course Coordinator and bound by decisions of the School Committee.
Part A : Inter-professional Units
Complete exactly 30 credit points from the following:
Code | Title | Credit Points | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
ALHT106 | Psychology for Allied Health | 10 | |
BIOL125 | Human Biology 1 | 10 | |
HLSC120 | Indigenous Health and Culture | 10 |
Part B : Honours Speech Pathology Theory Units
Complete exactly 140 credit points from the following:
Code | Title | Credit Points | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
SPHY100 | Communication and Development Across the Lifespan | 10 | |
SPHY102 | Anatomy and Physiology for Speech Pathology | 10 | |
SPHY103 | Linguistics and Phonetics for Speech Pathology | 10 | |
SPHY104 | Evidence Based Practice in Speech Pathology | 10 | |
SPHY200 | Neuroscience Speech Pathology | 10 | |
SPHY201 | Language Disorders (Developmental) | 10 | |
SPHY202 | Language Disorders (Acquired) | 10 | |
SPHY204 | Speech Disorders (Developmental) | 10 | |
SPHY205 | Motor Speech Disorders (Acquired) | 10 | |
SPHY301 | Swallowing, Feeding, and Mealtime across the Lifespan | 10 | |
SPHY303 | Voice Disorders Across the Lifespan | 10 | |
SPHY304 | Fluency Disorders Across the Lifespan | 10 | |
SPHY308 | Multimodal Communication Across the Lifespan | 10 | |
SPHY407 | Professional Reasoning in Speech Pathology - 1 | 10 |
Part C : Honours Integration and Practice Units
Complete exactly 50 credit points from the following:
Code | Title | Credit Points | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
SPHY101 | Introduction to Speech Pathology Practice | 10 | |
SPHY203 | Speech Pathology Practice 2A | 10 | |
SPHY207 | Speech Pathology Practice 2B | 10 | |
SPHY302 | Speech Pathology Practice 3A | 10 | |
SPHY305 | Speech Pathology Practice 3B | 10 |
Part D : Honours Units
Complete exactly 80 credit points from the following:
Code | Title | Credit Points | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
ALHT404 | Honours Research Project Implementation | 10 | |
ALHT405 | Honours Research Design | 10 | |
ALHT406 | Honours Dissertation | 20 | |
SPHY403 | Speech Pathology Practice 4a (Honours) | 20 | |
SPHY404 | Speech Pathology Practice 4b (Honours) | 20 | |
SPHY413 | Speech Pathology Professional and Reflective Practice 4A Honours | 20 | |
SPHY414 | Speech Pathology Professional and Reflective Practice 4B Honours | 20 |
Part E : Core Curriculum Units
Complete exactly 20 credit points from the following:
Code | Title | Credit Points | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
UNCC100 | Self and Community: Exploring the Anatomy of Modern Society | 10 | OR |
PHCC102 | Being Human | 10 | OR |
PHCC104 | Ethics and the Good Life | 10 |
Code | Title | Credit Points | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
UNCC300 | Justice and Change in a Global World | 10 | OR |
PHCC320 | The Just Society | 10 |