Occupational TherapyFour Year Pre-requisite Plan

 

Occupational Therapy Four Year Plan

 

Requirements for Occupational Therapy programs vary from school to school and can change year to year, students must carefully examine the pre-requisite requirements of the schools they are interested in to be current and accurate when registering for courses at Gustavus. Consult the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. website www.aota.org to view a list of accredited OT Doctoral-Level Programs and OT Master’s Level Programs and the requirements and statistics for the 150+ Occupational Therapy programs.

For many Occupational Therapy programs, all prerequisite courses must be completed by the time of application. For example, if an applicant applied in the summer following their junior year, all pre-requisite requirements would need to be completed by the end of the junior year. Many programs also require that no pre-requisite course have a grade lower than a C, a minimum GPA requirement and a certain amount of observation/shadowing hours.

 

*Course sequence will vary by major. 

First Year: Fall

FTS 100 (Writing Intensive course- WRITI)

PSY 100 General Psychology

 

First Year: Spring

S/A 111 Cultural Anthropology or S/A 112 Principles of Sociology or S/A 113 Social Problems

 

Second Year: Fall

HES 234 Human Anatomy & Physiology I

HES 212 Lifespan Development or (PSY 234 Child Developmental and PSY 334 Adult Development)

 

Second Year: January Interim

NDL 068 Career Exploration (strongly recommended)

 

Second Year: Spring

HES 235 Human Anatomy & Physiology II

PSY 241 Abnormal Psychology

 

Third Year: Fall

HES 214 Medical Terminology

 

Third Year: Spring

MCS 142 Introduction to Statistics (or equivalent, not E/M- 125)

Research Methods (required for some programs including St. Scholastica; recommended)

 

Pre-requisite Requirements MN Occupational Therapy Programs:

Consult the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. website to view a list of accredited OT Doctoral-Level Programs and OT Master’s Level Program sand the requirements and admission statistics for the 150+ Occupational Therapy programs.

 

Updated 6/17/2016 HB