376 Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Occupational Therapy the concept, the student’s responsibilities during distance and face-to-face sessions, self directedness, and independence. It is the first of seven courses of the research sequence. The course also serves as a preservice training on safety and health precautions as well as fieldwork placement policies, professional behaviors, and relationship to curriculum design. Requirements to participate in Level I and Level II fieldwork placements and doctoral capstone requirements are covered. (3 credits) OTD 8102—Foundations of Occupational Therapy This course traces the historical, philosophical, and theoretical underpinnings of occupational therapy as it evolved into contemporary practice. The student applies theories, models, and frames of reference in understanding how social, political, and economic factors continually influence current and future practice. Attention is given to interdisciplinary practice. (3 credits) OTD 8103—Kinesiology in Occupations This course promotes the understanding of normal human motion through skills learned in applying the principles of biomechanics, joint kinematics, joint kinetics, and muscle function. Experiences in the analysis and assessment of movement, muscle strength, and joint range of motion provide the student with opportunities to articulate the connection between kinesiology and occupational performance. (4 credits) OTD 8104—Neuroscience of Occupational Therapy Anatomy of central and peripheral nervous systems. Laboratory activities consist of student teams studying prosected cadavers, sections, radiographs, and models. (3 credits) OTD 8141—Development of Occupations across the Lifespan This course provides opportunities not only to learn the continuum of human development that influences health and independence across the life span, but also to refine observation, analysis, reflection, and communication skills. 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 second course in a seven-course series on rresearch methods. It provides fundamental knowledge to build research capacity of occupational therapy practitioners who are advanced consumers of research evidence. This course focuses on the (a) development of professional reasoning with evidence-based decision-making skills; (b) process of locating, selecting, and critically appraising research evidence; (c) ability to critique both quantitative and qualitative research, with an emphasis on qualitative methods; and (d) basic methodologies, data collection, description, analysis, synthesis, and interpretation of qualitative research. (3 credits) OTD 8162—Research Design, Quantitative Methods (Proposal) This course is the third of seven in a series of evidence-based practice and research courses, with a focus on quantitative methods. The course includes basic descriptive, correlational, and inferential statistics. Students learn the process of selection, application, synthesis, critique, and interpretation of computable methods for data analysis that support scholarly activities in occupational therapy practice. (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, computer-
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