<p>I am currently an undergrad in my first semester of college, majoring in physics. I had taken both AP Physics B and AP Physics C (Mechanics portion only) in high school and fell in love with the subject and the beautiful simplicity of being able to describe all the world's phenomenon with numerical expressions. This love of the subject had made my major selection for me after my first year of taking a physics course. Later on, after finally stopping to decide what I would actually DO with a degree in physics, I stumbled across the field of psychoacoustics and decided that that was where I wanted my focus to be, great. My only problem now is that I've decided that what interested me most about psychoacoustics was the possible application for therapeutic purposes. That's a great goal and I'm glad to have a focus now, but I'm not entirely sure what kind of title one would put to an occupation like that, what types of degrees I'd actually need to do acquire such a position (if one even exists), and where would I go to study and where would I work?
Does anyone have any ideas as to what sort of path I should be taking or any sort of advice for reconsidering my career path?</p>
<p>Took a required class in psychoacoustics to get my Masters in Audiology. The professor was brilliant and had a PhD in Audiology from Wisconsin.</p>
<p>I would suggest you call some of the top Audiology research schools and talk to the Dean of the department about reaearch PhD and what you do after that. I suggest you call Vanderbilt, UConn, Wisconsin, Suny Buffalo. All are “in the news” with research, I believe. </p>
My daughter is a HS Junior looking at colleges. She is interested in Audiology or Speech and Language Pathology. Her academics are really great. We are awaiting SATs and expect them to be around 2100. Do you have any advise as to which colleges have undergraduate programs for these disciplines?