2006-07 Undergraduate Catalog
Disability Science
The disability science minor provides students with a basic scientific foundation to understand the impact of disability on physical and psychosocial health. Prerequisites for the minor include a 2.75 overall GPA and a 2.75 prerequisite GPA based on general college biology, general psychology, abnormal or developmental psychology, statistics (STA 2023) and physiology.
This minor is available to all juniors and seniors in other colleges who meet the prerequisites, as well as to rehabilitative services students in the college. It is not available to students in the pre-OT track or the health science track in the College of Public Health and Health Professions. The minor requires 15 credits of which 12 must be at 3000+ level and completed with an average grade of C.
Students interested in this minor can obtain an application and a list of appropriate course work that begins in the junior year from the dean‘s office (HPNP, Room 4104A).
Required Courses (11 credits)
| OTH 3416 Pathophysiology (Prereq. PET 2350C Applied Human Physiology with Laboratory) | 3 |
| HSC 4558 Disability Management (Prereq. HSC 3502 Survey of Diseases and Disability) | 3 |
| OTH 4412 and 4412L Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Laboratory (senior year only) or OTH 4418 and 4418L Nervous System and Disorders and Laboratory (senior year only) |
5 |
Electives: choose one or two, depending upon credits
| CLP 4944 Introduction to Neuropsychology | 3 |
| OTH 3200C Applied Human Development 1 | 3 |
| OTH 3201 Applied Human Development 2 | 2 |
| OTH 4314 Psychiatric Disorders | 3 |
| OTH 4412 and 4412L Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Laboratory | 5 |
| OTH 4418 and 4418L Nervous System and Disorders and Laboratory | 5 |
| HSC 3502 Survey of Diseases and Disability | 4 |
| RCS 4451 Rehabilitative Aspects of Substance Abuse | 3 |