Occupational and Environmental Hearing Conservation

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: AUDI 7116, AUDI 7119, AUDI 7126. Anatomical, physiological and psychological effects of noise will be discussed. The course will present industrial and community sound control regulations, as well as, the review of established programs for the conservation of normal hearing and the prevention of hearing loss in different acoustic environments. Sound measurement methods, including the instrumentation used, will also be discussed. Lectures, group discussions, collaborative learning, case studies are some of the instructional strategies that will be used in this course. Some lectures will be aimed by distance learning modality.