NSU Health Professions Division 2001 student teams studying prosected cadavers, sections, radiographs, models. Perception, observation, appreciation, analysis, prediction, selection, presentation of occupations that exhibit appropriateness for individuals as determined by age or interest are included. Creative Occupations Course focuses on the creative process and problem solving. Through engagement in selected creative projects, the meaning, and significance of challenge, success, and competence are explored.
Students learn to structure, adapt, plan, present, and assess activities for therapeutic use.
Applied Occupations Course examines the interplay of human performance and environmental context in routine daily activities. Focus placed on physical, social and cultural factors that enhance human function. Assesses environmental adaptations, assistive devices, social networks, and cultural influences for occupational therapy intervention. Students explore relationship between philosophical, theoretical, knowledge bases of occupational therapy. I interpersonal, self-care, productivity, leisure areas that may be seen by occupational therapists as a result of pathophysiological dysfunction.