We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. Review the characteristics of students who were admitted last year and reflect on your experience and academic history. Occupational science is a new social science that generates information about activity patterns, how occupations meet needs, produce change, and provide meaning to life. The historic philosophy behind occupational therapy and the scientific study of occupations serve as part of our professional foundation. As sociology is applied by a social worker and biology is applied through the practice of medicine, knowledge from occupational science is used by the occupational therapist.
Names help frame how people view a program.
The name, Division of Occupational Science, reflects the faculty's scholarly activities that include basic research on occupations and the application of science to clinical practice. The name also alerts the public and prospective students that the curriculum goes beyond training clinicians in techniques to building our graduates' professional understanding of how occupations contribute to development, adaptation, and wellness. UNC's program in occupational therapy is designed to prepare graduates for Occupational Therapy practice in a variety of settings such as day care centers, schools, hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, home health agencies and nursing homes. Clinicians in the future should anticipate working with people with various disabilities and of different ages. Innovations in practice settings are anticipated.