Audiology Short Courses

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• Modular (part-time)
  UK students (per annum): £1,500 per 15 credits
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £3,700 per 15 credits

Fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance. Postgraduate fees information .

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

 

• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the peripheral auditory system and of the key ascending pathways of the central auditory system from the cochlea to the cortex explain and critically evaluate how the physiology relates to the coding of different acoustic signals.
• Explain how the structure and function of the peripheral auditory system allows for efficient transmission, transduction and encoding of the auditory signal.
• Explain the basic principles of auditory sensitivity, loudness and frequency selectivity, sound localisation, pitch, and speech perception & how these aspects relate to the underlying physiological mechanisms and evaluate how such mechanisms change in different types of hearing loss
• Explain how different types of cochlear hearing loss arise and how they impact on the perception of sound.
• Explain the principles behind a range of clinical and psychophysical methods used in the assessment of hearing.
• Be able to apply the basic principles of physics and measurements relevant to audiology in discussions relating to the physiological processing and the perception of sound in normally hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.
• Be able to basic aspects of physiology, perception and hearing impairment to the underlying physics (including  basics of sound and speech acoustics, room acoustics and hearing aid acoustics, linear and nonlinear systems and filters and mechanical resonance).

• Demonstrate evidence of academic reading relating to the content covered by this course unit. 
• Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis by producing clear and coherent explanations of a range of aspects of audiological science.

• Effectively organise notes and thoughts that will allow you to process a range of different types of information available in this course unit.
• Effectively use online pre-reading material to prepare for face-to-face sessions.

• Assimilate information from a variety of resources.
• Interpret a range of graphical information from a variety of scientific studies.
• Search, Select and Extract appropriate information from appropriate academic resources.

Summative Assignment (Mid-Semester): 1,000 Words (40%)

Summative Unseen Exam (On Campus): 1.5 Hours (60%)

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Essential reading:

• Lenz, J.L. (2025) Psychoacoustics: Perception of Normal and Impaired Hearing with Audiological Applications. Plural Publishing, 2nd Ed. 2025. ISBN: 978-1-63550-525-2
• Musiek, F.E., Baran, J.A. The Auditory System; Anatomy, Physiology, and Clinical Correlates (2nd Ed) Plural Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 9781944883003.
• Gelfand, S.A. Hearing: an introduction to psychological and physiological acoustics. 6th Edition. New York, Dekker, 2018. ISBN: 9781498775427