This course will cover fundamental aspects of health care administration and emerging management practice. Information regarding financing and reimbursement of health services, and social and global health issues will be covered. Supervisory relationships, the law related to occupational therapy practice, and ethical scenarios will be explored.

Experiential learning enables students to develop meaningful connections between course content and the occupational needs of individuals, organizations, and communities. Students engage in service hours in a setting that provides professional development experience relevant to occupational therapy practice and/or with the populations served by occupational therapists. Students reflect on diversity and individual differences, meaningful occupation, and their own professionalism and lifelong learning and growth.

Experiential learning enables students to develop meaningful connections between course content and the occupational needs of individuals, organizations, and communities. Students engage in service hours in a setting that provides professional development experience relevant to occupational therapy practice and/or with the populations served by occupational therapists. Students reflect on diversity and individual differences, meaningful occupation, and their own professionalism and lifelong learning and growth.

In this course, students complete 12 hours of observation/collaboration in an assigned Level I Fieldwork setting with an occupational therapist or at an emerging practice site. Course also includes 3 seminar sessions.

This course continues to prepare students to work with infants, children and adolescents across settings and diagnoses in order to support development, occupational performance, participation and health and wellness. Students will develop knowledge and strategies to analyze and apply the occupational therapy process at the population and systems levels in addition to the individual.

This course continues to prepare students in the occupational therapy processes of evaluation and intervention planning for adults with occupational performance deficits that result from a variety of acquired musculoskeletal and/or neurological conditions.

The domain and process of occupational therapy services for infants, children and adolescents across a variety of settings will be discussed and explored with an emphasis on theoretical, legal and ethical foundations to pediatric practice, diagnosis, evaluation, intervention and outcomes. Students will analyze and apply a variety of evidence to support clinical and professional reasoning when working with this population.

This course addresses evaluation and treatment of adults with occupational performance deficits that result from a variety of acquired musculoskeletal and/or neurological disorders. Building upon foundational information learned in the introduction to evaluation and treatment courses, students will analyze and apply scientific evidence to understanding assessment and treatment principles specific to adult populations, utilizing a variety of models and frames of reference to inform their clinical reasoning.

This course develops theoretical knowledge of and practice skills for the occupational therapy process with clients with diverse psychosocial needs, ranging from the importance and meaning of occupation for mental health promotion to the impact of psychiatric conditions on occupational performance. Students administer assessment methods, identify and analyze occupational needs related to mental health, and compare a variety of evidence-informed psychosocial intervention approaches.

This course prepares students to analyze, and apply the person-task-environment interaction of individuals with various disabilities and impairments, with an emphasis on services addressing advanced technology, ergonomics, and work.