Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Occupational Therapy 387 The course encourages the student to explore how culture, environment, spirituality, sex, and age influence human occupation. It includes field trips to selected facilities. (3 credits) OTD 8142—Occupational and Contextual Analysis This course focuses on analyzing occupations and occupational performance in different contexts, including applications of technology. The course provides opportunities for students to engage in and analyze the projects according to their occupational demands, as well as to learn the meaning of, and avenues for, success and occupational competence. Students not only learn to structure, adapt, plan, present, and assess occupations for therapeutic use, but also to articulate concepts and theories that influence engagement and participation, especially within cultural, personal, temporal, virtual, physical, and social contexts of occupational performance. (3 credits) OTD 8143—Therapeutic Use of Self This course provides hands-on experiences in applying the therapeutic use of self when interacting with individuals, groups, and treatment teams. Through the course, the student designs, participates in, and runs occupation-based groups, as well as works within a treatment team. (3 credits) OTD 8151—Human Conditions and Occupation I This course focuses on how pathophysiological conditions affect intrinsic human factors so that students can make the link between the factors and occupational performance. This course integrates information from Anatomy; Medical Terminology; and Introduction to Didactic, Clinical, and Research Experiences. (3 credits) OTD 8152—Human Conditions and Occupation II Building on the understanding of pathophysiological conditions learned in OTD 8151, this course expands the application of occupational concepts to people with disorders or injuries to the immune, cardiopulmonary, urinary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, nervous, musculoskeletal, and neurocognitive systems. (3 credits) OTD 8161—Evidence in Occupational Therapy Practice/Qualitative Design This is the first course in a six-course series on research. It provides students with fundamental knowledge that will help them to become critical consumers of research evidence. This course focuses on topics of relatedness of research and occupational therapy practice, critical appraisal of research evidence, and research critique of both quantitative and qualitative research, with an emphasis on the latter. It will address basic ideas behind methodologies, data collection, description, analysis, and interpretation in qualitative research. (3 credits) OTD 8244—Innovations and Technology in Contemporary Occupational Therapy Students will take a critical look at day-to-day occupations and state-of-the-art technology such as video games, computerassisted interventions, nanotechnology, documentation, triangulation, thematic analyses and other software, robotics, etc. Within the light of person, environmental, occupation, and professional factors, the student identifies applications for a future-oriented innovative practice at any level of intervention within different contexts. (3 credits) OTD 8162—Research Design, Quantitative Methods, Proposal This course is the second of six in a series of evidence-based practice and research methods with a focus on quantitative methods. Students develop a viable research proposal by the end of the semester. (3 credits) OTD 8262L—Research Design Lab/IRB This is the lab course for OTD 8262. It provides an opportunity for students to work with evidence-based practices and research methods. (1 credit) OTD 8271—Occupational Therapy Interventions I: Psychosocial and Community This course focuses on the application of the personenvironment-occupation-performance (PEOP) model for occupational therapy evaluation and treatment with emphasis on wellness, prevention, and community-based therapy practice. (6 credits) OTD 8291—Level I Fieldwork Experience: Occupational Therapy Interventions I—Psychosocial and Community This course comprises fieldwork seminars during on-campus institutes throughout the semester and three weeks of supervised Level I fieldwork experience at an approved setting. This is the clinical education component of OTD 8271 Occupational Therapy Interventions I—Psychosocial and Community, “to introduce students to the fieldwork experience, and develop a basic comfort level with, and understanding of, the needs of clients.” These experiences are designed to enrich didactic coursework through observation and directed participation in selected aspects of the occupational therapy process. (2 credits) OTD 8272—Occupational Therapy Interventions II: Children and Youth Students apply the PEOP model in identifying barriers and supports for participation and engagement of children and youth with multiple conditions within the context of diverse environments. (8 credits)
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