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Occupational Therapy
Prerequisites

 
Prerequisite Courses Credits Comments
Abnormal Psychology  3  
Anatomy w/ Lab*  4(3/1) Human or Vertebrate or Comparative
Chemistry  3 Organic or General or Introduction or Elementary
Human Development Across Lifespan  3-6 3 credits if lifespan covered on one course; 6 credits if a separate child development course and an aging course are taken to cover the lifespan
Physics w/ Lab  4(3/1) General or Introduction or Elementary
Human Physiology*  3 Lab is highly recommended but not required
Sociology  3 Any sociology course is acceptable
Statistics  3 Must be inferential statistics; needs to include: descriptive statistics, correlation, and analysis of variance
                                Total:  26-29 credits  

* If Anatomy and Human Physiology courses are taken as Anatomy & Physiology I and Anatomy & Physiology II instead of as separate courses, then the total of seven (7) credits is needed for the combined course content.

        Also Required:

Strongly Recommended Courses:

            -Bachelor's Degree           -Medical Terminology
            -Graduate Record Exam           -Technical Writing
            -CPR Certification, must           -Public Speaking
              be valid during enrollment           -Computer Science
            -40 Hours of Clinical Observation              
             under supervision of OTR  
            -Computer literacy required  

 

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