On this course you will learn about the best ways to enable people to engage in their daily lives by maximising their functional potential and adapting to their environment.
As you'd expect, there is a strong practical focus on this course, through both the placements you undertake and the use of our excellent clinical skills facilities. These include various skills rooms and a daily living suite and kitchen, where you will make use of the latest equipment and learn how to tackle common situations encountered by occupational therapists.
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Bournemouth
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Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB
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On request
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Course programme
Course details
You will study anatomy, physiology, sociology, psychology and occupational science which will form the ground work on which the study of the occupational therapy process is based.
Our course design utilises a range of diverse teaching and learning strategies with a strong emphasis on problem based learning, which involves groups of students working on real life scenarios in order to gain knowledge and understanding of occupational roles and how health and wellbeing can affect their functioning.
You can view information on our facilities and take a 360 tour of our simulation suites here.
On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators and technicians. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.
Year 1
Core units
Becoming an occupational therapist: This introductory unit explores occupational science concepts, theory of humans as occupational beings, key OT concepts and stages in the OT process.
Skills for therapy practice: During this unit you'll develop effective and transferable communication skills that value diversity.
Occupational therapy in action 1: You'll discover how to implement OT practice with diverse clients in a variety of settings, as well as learn how to gather information through assessment, collaboratively goals and identify appropriate occupation-focused approaches to intervention.
Analysing occupation: You'll gain an understanding of human anatomy, physiology, psychology, sociology and occupational functioning.
Occupational therapy portfolio 1: This placement unit enables you to apply the theoretical skills you’ve learnt in your first year to practical environments.
Year 2
Core units
Reasoning for occupational therapy practice: You'll explore the relevance of clinical reasoning and best evidence in relation to decision making and intervention planning.
Occupational therapy in action 2: Developing your skills of implementing OT practice, you'll be able to select, apply and critique a broad range of approaches to a diverse range of situations.
Exploring evidence to guide professional practice: You'll reflect on how professional practice can be enhanced in ways that emphasise human sensitivity and individual worth in accordance with value bases for professional practice across disciplinary boundaries.
Promoting health and wellbeing: This unit investigates the development and delivery of non-judgmental, sensitive health promotion, and evidence based practice.
Occupational therapy portfolio 2: This placement unit will help you plan, analyse and apply OT theories, knowledge, legislation and clinical governance in practice.
Year 3
Core units
Research for occupational therapy practice: You'll investigate the role of research in practice by exploring research approaches and relate research findings to a specific area of practice.
Innovation in occupational therapy: Drawing on experiences of different sectors and wider economic and socio-political issues, you'll evaluate an innovation of your choice.
Service improvement project: This group project will explore a service area of health care where you can enhance the experiences of people using the service.
Occupational therapy portfolio 3: This final placement will ensure you qualify as a confident and proficient professional, capable of providing high quality, autonomous practice.
Scheduled learning and teaching activities
Contact hours
In addition to the scheduled teaching and learning activities you will spend 1000 hours undertaking clinical placements where you gain the practical skills necessary to work as an occupational therapist. Your study time at BU will be split between scheduled learning and teaching activities and guided independent learning, such as preparing for and writing up coursework assignment, and group work.
Year 1 – 28% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Learning and teaching: 422 hours
Independent learning: 514 hours
Non-assessed learning and teaching: 45 hours
Placement hours: 264
Year 2 – 21% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Learning and teaching: 210 hours
Independent learning: 540 hours
Non-assessed learning and teaching: 17 hours
Placement hours: 450
Year 3 - 10% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Learning and teaching: 120 hours
Independent learning: 780 hours
Non-assessed learning and teaching: 8 hours
Placement hours: 300
77% of the course is assessed by coursework
Year 1: 80%
Year 2: 83%
Year 3: 67%
In addition to coursework assessments which allow you to combine your practice and theoretical learning you will experience assessed practical exams and there is also a small amount of written exam work to complete.
Programme specification
Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used.
View the programme specification for BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.
*All statistics shown are taken from Unistats, Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE), BU institutional data and Ipsos MORI (National Student Survey) unless otherwise stated.
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