COURSE INFORMATION

SAR HP252: Health and Disability Across the Lifespan
This interdisciplinary course provides a basis for understanding the context of disability in the populations served in the health and rehabilitation professions. A major goal of this undergraduate course is for students to develop a greater understanding of the person (as a whole) who they are working with: that person’s life context and the ways in which environmental influences may impact on an individual with a disability at different stages of life. 

SAR OT529: Occupation Across the Life Course
This course in the MSOT curriculum examines current theory and research related to the development of human occupation throughout the life course.  Human development is viewed from an ecological perspective, emphasizing the inextricable links among person, environment, and occupation.  The performance of activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, work/education, play/leisure, and social participation, especially as potentially affected by disease, injury, or other disorders, will be examined.

SAR HP891:  Research Seminar
This doctoral-level course is designed as a forum for the exploration, learning, and presentation of advanced research topics.  In the context of students’ own research, we discuss advanced methodological and analytic techniques.  Students identify appropriate readings for their peers.  This course meets every other week and attendance throughout the doctoral program is suggested.

SAR RS750: Research Design
This doctoral-level course serves as an introduction into research designs relevant to rehabilitation science. The first set of sessions provides the background and framework for understanding the reasoning behind different research designs.  The remaining sessions focus on various categories of research designs, the types of research questions these designs address, and the types of data analyses that are appropriate to the designs.