Bachelor (Honours)
Secure your future with highly specialised training, exciting placements and flexible outcomes.
Speech pathologists are allied health professionals responsible for the assessment and treatment of children and adults with communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan, such as developmental and acquired speech and language disorders, cleft lip and palate, voice disorders and stuttering.
When you study a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) at the University of Newcastle, you are accessing the most comprehensive degree of its kind in Australia, opening up experiences and job opportunities like no other.
You will develop competencies and learn the necessary skills to confidently take on the full range of conditions that speech pathologists assess and treat, including:
Students will study a variety of foundation courses including:
As part of the honours component in this degree you can choose from the study pathways outlined in the Speech Pathology handbook .
Gain professionally accredited expertise in all areas of speech pathology. The strong experience-based nature of this degree, along with an internationally recognised professional accreditation, prepares University of Newcastle graduates for immediate professional employment. In fact, 83% of our 2019 graduates were employed within four months of completion (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019).
Opportunities exist in: