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Part Three – Postgraduate Units of StudyDivision of Linguisiticsand PsychologyLINGUISTICS*** Taught externallyBUS854 Managing Cultural Diversity inBusiness4 pg cpThis unit discusses the implications for organisationalleaders in view of increasing cultural differences betweenindividuals and groups within and between organisations.In particular the unit examines practical problems andopportunities in managing human diversity in contemporarycross-cultural and international settings.CAUD801 Clinical Skills4 pg cpThis unit explores the skills necessary to conduct a basicaudiological assessment such as case history taking,explaining results to the client, conduct in a clinical settingand ethical issues. The unit will prepare students fortheir first clinical experiences.CAUD802 Assessment Strategies I4 pg cpThis unit will provide students with basic audiometricskills as first practised in the clinic. Students will becomeproficient at conducting pure tone audiometry as appropriatein the assessment of adults and children, basicspeech discrimination assessments and acoustic impedancetesting.CAUD803 Theoretical Bases of Audiology4 pg cpThis unit will review the theoretical concepts of audiologyincluding acoustics, psychoacoustics and the perceptionof sound, and auditory physiology. This unit providesthe theoretical base for Assessment Strategies I andfor later units.CAUD804 Clinical Practicum I4 pg cpStudents will begin working towards their 200 hours of“hands on” clinical experience as required by the professionalsociety. Experience will be mainly directedtowards basic assessment strategies and students will beassessed against competencies as could rightly be expectedin proportion to the number of hours “hands on”.CAUD805 Hearing Aids4 pg cpThis unit will prepare students for hearing aid fitting. Thevarious types of hearing aids available will be reviewedalong with issues such as gain, frequency response anddynamic range. In addition, fitting issues and procedures,aid selection and evaluation including the use of questionnaires,will be discussed.AUD806 Objective Assessment Strategies4 pg cpThis unit will explore the various objective test strategiesavailable to the audiologist covering both theoretical conceptsand practical applications. Strategies of auditoryevoked potentials, otoacoustic emissions and vestibularassessment techniques will be reviewed.CAUD807 Paediatrics4 pg cpThis unit will explore child development, languageacquisition, test strategies appropriate to infants andpreschool children, and to the multiple handicapped. Theuse of speech based tests in the paediatric population willalso be examined.CAUD808 Clinical Practicum II4 pg cpStudents will be working towards the professional society’srequirement of 200 hours of “hands on” clinicalwork in a variety of settings as organised by theUniversity. Students will be assessed against competenciesas could be expected for the number of hoursobtained and by a viva voce examination conducted by apanel made up of University staff and an external examiner.CAUD809 Auditory and LanguagePathology4 pg cpThis unit will review diagnostic strategies and medicaltreatment options for adult and paediatric auditorypathologies. Various relevant speech pathologies will bediscussed along with treatment options. Students willhave opportunities to observe surgery and ENT outpatientclinics at local hospitals.CAUD810 The Hearing Impaired and theFamily4 pg cpThis optional unit will explore the role of audiologists incounselling parents of hearing impaired children andadults with acquired hearing loss. Students will have anopportunity to develop these skills. Issues such as howhearing impairment can impact on the lives of familymembers will also be discussed.CAUD811 Audiology Project8 pg cpThis optional unit provides students with an opportunityto undertake a small piece of supervised original researchusing skills obtained within the Research Design andMethodology unit.291
Handbook of Postgraduate Studies – 2004CAUD812 Research Design Skills4 pg cpThis unit will review current practice in research designenabling students to discover how to perform literaturesearches, develop a research topic and appropriatemethodologies, analyse results and report them.CAUD813 Clinical Practicum III4 pg cpStudents will be finishing the required 200 hours of“hands on” supervised clinical work and commencing the150 hours of clinical experience. This second stage willenable students to consolidate their accumulated experiencesin university and associated clinics with less intensivesupervision. Students will be expected to be moreself sufficient in the clinical decision making process.CAUD814 Rehabilitation of the HearingImpaired4 pg cpThis unit will explore the non medical treatment andmanagement options available to audiologists. The educationaloptions for hearing impaired children will bereviewed along with areas of tinnitus management, communicationtraining and cochlear implants. The role ofvoluntary organisations will also be discussed. The unitwill include site visits to relevant agencies and schoolsfor the hearing impaired.CAUD816 Assessment Strategies II4 pg cpThis unit will explore assessment strategies appropriateto the investigation of central auditory dysfunction. Theclassical tests for site of lesion in the clinic will be discussedalong with issues pertaining to noise and hearingconservation in industry.CAUD817 Clinical Practicum IV4 pg cpThis unit represents the final stage of clinical experiencefor the student in which the requisite clinical experiencehours will be gained in a variety of settings. Students willbe expected to demonstrate their accumulated knowledgein a viva voce examination at the end of the year.CAUD818 Advanced Hearing Aids4 pg cpThis unit will discuss advanced concepts in the prescriptionand fitting of hearing aids. Issues such as digitaltechnology, non linear hearing aids and outcome assessmentwill be reviewed using both lectures and problembased learning formats.EDUC6057 Social, Language and CulturalStudies in Deafness(Renwick Institute)Credit points: 10 RI cps = 4 Macquarie Universitypg cpThis unit introduces the socio-cultural perspective ondeafness through lectures, discussions and audio-visualmedia. Characteristics of the culture of deaf people(including history, literature, theatre and art) are consideredas is the development of social structures and communityresources. Topics include the role and significanceof Auslan, community empowerment,bilingualism, the role of technology in the lives of deafpeople, and the socio-emotional issues confronting familieswith a deaf child. Field experience will encourageinteraction with members of the deaf community.EDUC6065 Advanced Auslan Skills forEducators(Renwick Institute)Credit points: 10 RI cps = 4 Macquarie Universitypg cpIn this subject candidates will develop a high level ofAuslan for use in educational and interpreting environments.Advanced Auslan Skills is a course in Auslan textstudies in which the lexical, grammatical and discoursefeatures of these texts are analysed and the appropriateEnglish equivalents explored. The course will draw ondiscourse analysis in spoken languages and other signedlanguages, and apply them to the description and translationof selected Auslan texts into English (spoken andwritten). The texts used will cover a variety of discourseforms presented originally in Auslan.EDUC6120 The Linguistics of Auslan(Renwick Institute)Credit points: 10 RI cps = 4 Macquarie Universitypg cpThis unit will cover a number of different topics in regardto sign language grammar: sign language phonology (thestructure of signs), sign morphology, sign syntax and signsemantics. The course introduces candidates to the techniquesand literature relevant to the psychological studyof signers and sign language development (psycholinguistics),sign language variation (sociolinguistics) andchange (historical linguistics).LING816 Special Project CommunicationDisorders6 pg cpAn original research project, of not more than 20,000words, to be submitted no later than February, followingthe year of entry to the course. Supervision of projectswill be arranged with appropriate specialists in the subjectarea.292
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