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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

311075 (v.1) OT 541 Foundations of Occupational Therapy

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Occupational Therapy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 1 x 1 Days Weekly
Prerequisite(s): Admission into 311102 (v.1) Graduate Certificate in Occupational Therapy or any previous version
OR
Admission into 311137 (v.1) Master of Occupational Therapy or any previous version
Syllabus: Philosophy and history of occupational therapy. Service delivery and theoretical models of health and occupational therapy practice. Introduction to occupational therapy, practice skills of manual handling, wheelchair and mobility training, task and activity analysis, communication skills. Professional behaviour and ethics
Field of Education: 061703 Occupational Therapy
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External