You will be asked to send the catalog description of your prerequisites as part of your Occupational Therapy application. The courses that appear in parenthesis at the end of each course description are UNC-CH courses that meet our prerequisites . Once we receive your transcripts, a copy of the course descriptions and all of your supplemental Occupational Therapy Application materials, your descriptions will be reviewed by staff. Confusion about your prerequisite descriptions can delay the processing of your application. If you believe you have completed or will be taking a prerequisite course whose description is markedly different from that which is listed above, submit a course description from the school's catalog or a letter from the course instructor or department as evidence of the similarity between our prerequisite and the course you took or will take.
Courses are equivalent only if comparable emphasis and class time has been committed to the topic.
Therefore general psychology or sociology courses that may touch on abnormal psychology, development or the family are not equivalent to a course on each of these topics. Basic form and structure of the human body, including information about the skeleton, muscles, internal organs and nervous system. A lab MUST be taken with this course. A course in vertebrate anatomy will not give you the same foundation to take our graduate level anatomy course and should be taken only if a human anatomy course is not available. Functions of major organ systems of the human body including respiratory, digestive, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and nervous systems.