Note: This course is not available in 2025 (will be available in 2022).
Course overview
- Description
The Master of Hearing Sciences provides students with comprehensive theoretical knowledge, including anatomy and physiology of hearing and deafness, audiological instrumentation, assessment, rehabilitation and advanced communication devices. In addition, this course provides research and development, scientific communication and practical skills in the field of audiology. The course has a strong research component which can be individually tailored to the students' background and interests, including the development of culturally appropriate audiological materials. This course does not lead to accreditation as an audiologist in Australia.
- Course title
- Master of Hearing Sciences (coursework and dissertation)
- Award abbreviation
- MCAudSci
- Course code
- 73560
- Course type
- Master's degree by coursework and dissertation
- Status
- Not available in 2025 (will be available in 2022)
- Administered by
- Human Sciences
- CRICOS code
- 0101137
Course details
- Intake periods
- Beginning of year only
- Attendance type
- Full-time only
- Credit points required
- 96
A standard full-time load is 24 points per semester. - Standard course duration
- 2 Years
- Time limit
- 5 years
- Delivery mode
- Internal
- Locations offered
- UWA (Perth)
- Domestic fee type
- Postgraduate fee-paying/FEE-HELP
- Available to international students
- Yes. For information on international student fees see 'Student Procedures: Fees'. (Enquiries: https://www.uwa.edu.au/askuwa)
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Associate Professor Helen Goulios and Associate Professor Helmy Mulders
- Fees
- Visit the fees calculator.
Prospective students should see the Future Students website for details on admission requirements, intake periods, fees, availability to international students, careers information etc.
No study plans found for this course. See study plans for more information.
Specialisations
Course structure
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
- SS
- summer teaching period
- N/A
- not available in 2025 – may be available in 2026 or 2027
- *
- to be advised
Take all units (96 points):
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | PHYL5501 | Audiological Instrumentation |
| equivalent to a 1-hour lecture plus a 3-hour lab class per week, but delivered in an intensive 5-week courses, followed by two weeks of workshops prior to clinical placements in Feb-May |
| S1 | PHYL5503 | Professional and Scientific Communication |
| 1 lecture per week 2 workshop/practical classes per week |
| N/A | PHYL5504 | Basic Adult Hearing Assessment |
| 2 lectures per week 2 workshop/practical classes per week |
| N/A | PHYL5505 | Introduction to Ear Diseases and Treatments |
| 2 lectures per week 2 workshop/practical classes per week |
| N/A | PHYL5506 | Basic Paediatric Hearing Assessment |
| |
| S1 | PHYL5510 | Physiology of the Auditory System |
| equivalent to 2 hours of lectures per week, but delivered in an intensive 5-week course, followed by two weeks of workshops in February to May |
| S2 | PHYL5513 | Speech, Language and Communication | lectures/tutorials/labs: equivalent to 2 hours per week, but delivered in an intensive 5-week course in June–August; plus a self-paced speech analysis assignment | |
| S1, S2 | PHYL5514 | Evoked Responses in Clinical Diagnosis | lectures/lab classes: equivalent to 4 hours a week, but delivered in an intensive 5-week course in June–August; plus self-paced assignments and tutorials | |
| S2 | PHYL5612 | Community and Workplace Audiology | lectures/lab classes: equivalent to 4 hours a week, but delivered in an intensive 5-week course in June–August; plus self-paced assignments and tutorials | |
| N/A | PHYL5618 | Basic Hearing Devices |
| 2 lectures/week 2 workshop/practical classes per week |
| N/A | PHYL5619 | Complex Adult and Paediatric Assessment |
| 3 lectures/week 1 workshop/practical class per week |
| N/A | PHYL5620 | Audiological Science Research Project Part 1 |
| 2 lectures/week 1 tutorial per week |
| N/A | PHYL5621 | Audiological Science Research Project Part 2 |
| tutorials 1 per week |
| N/A | PHYL5622 | Audiological Science Research Project Part 3 |
| 1 tutorial per week |
| N/A | PHYL5623 | Audiological Science Research Project Part 4 |
| 1 tutorial per week |
| N/A | PHYL5624 | Advanced Hearing Devices |
| 2 lectures/week 1 tutorial per week 1 workshop per week |
See also the rules for the course and the Student Rules.
Rules
Note: This course is not available in 2025.
Applicability of the Student Rules, policies and procedures
1.(1) The Student Rules apply to students in this course.
(2) The policy, policy statements and guidance documents and student procedures apply, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.
Academic Conduct Essentials and Communication and Research Skills modules
2.(1) A student who enrols in this course for the first time irrespective of whether they have previously been enrolled in another course of the University, must undertake the Academic Conduct Essentials module (the ACE module) and the Communication and Research Skills module (the CARS module).
(2) A student must successfully complete the ACE module within the first teaching period of their enrolment. Failure to complete the module within this timeframe will result in the student's unit results from this teaching period being withheld. These results will continue to be withheld until students avail themselves of a subsequent opportunity to achieve a passing grade in the ACE module. In the event that students complete units in subsequent teaching periods without completing the ACE module, these results will similarly be withheld. Students will not be permitted to submit late review or appeal applications regarding results which have been withheld for this reason and which they were unable to access in the normally permitted review period.
English Language competency requirements
3. To be considered eligible for consideration for admission to this course an applicant must satisfy the University's English language competence requirement as set out in the University Policy on Admission: Coursework.
Admission requirements
4. To be considered for admission to this course an applicant must have—
(a) a bachelor's degree, or equivalent qualification as recognised by UWA: and
(b) the equivalent of a UWA weighted average mark of at least 65 percent, from the most recent degree of at least one year full-time duration.
Admission ranking and selection
5. Where relevant, admission will be awarded to the highest ranked applicants or applicants selected based on the relevant requirements.
Articulations and exit awards
6. This course does not form part of an articulated sequence.
Course structure
7.(1) The course consists of units to a total value of 96 points.
(2) Units must be selected in accordance with the course structure, as set out in these rules.
Satisfactory progress
8. To make satisfactory progress a student must pass units to a point value greater than half the total value of units in which they remain enrolled after the final date for withdrawal without academic penalty.
9. A student who has not achieved a result of Ungraded Pass (UP) for the Communication and Research Skills module (the CARS module) when their progress status is assessed will not have made satisfactory progress even if they have met the other requirements for satisfactory progress in Rule 8.
Progress status
10.(1) A student who makes satisfactory progress under Rule 8 is assigned the status of 'Good Standing'.
(2) Unless the relevant board determines otherwise because of exceptional circumstances—
(a) a student who does not make satisfactory progress under Rule 8 for the first time is assigned a progress status of 'Suspended';
(b) a student who does not make satisfactory progress under Rule 8 for the second time is assigned a progress status of 'Excluded'.
11. A student who does not make satisfactory progress in terms of Rule 9 is assigned the progress status of 'On Probation', unless they have been assigned a progress status of 'Suspended' or 'Excluded' for failure to meet other satisfactory progress requirements in Rule 8.
Award with distinction
12. To be awarded the degree with distinction a student must achieve a course weighted average mark (WAM) of at least 80 per cent which is calculated based on—
(a) all units above Level 3 attempted as part of the course that are awarded a final percentage mark;
(b) all relevant units above Level 3 undertaken in articulating courses of this University that are awarded a final percentage mark;
and
(c) all units above Level 3 completed at this University that are credited to the master's degree course.
Deferrals
13. Applicants awarded admission to the course are entitled to a deferral of up to 12 months, as per the University Policy on: Admissions (Coursework).