Capstone: Project Implementation, Evaluation and Dissemination

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to demonstrate leadership and scholarship by implementing and evaluating a capstone project that reflects an identified area of need related to occupational therapy practice. Students further synthesize outcomes of their project by demonstrating their understanding of advanced occupational therapy concepts and by disseminating the findings/outcomes from the capstone project as occupational therapy scholars. The experience is guided by learning contract that includes individualized specific objectives, plans for supervision or mentoring, and responsibilities of the student, mentor at the project site, and faculty supervisor (course instructor). The Capstone experience must be a minimum of 14 weeks and a minimum of 32 hours per week completed on a full time or part-time basis, and it must be consistent with the individualized specific objectives and capstone project proposed in OT 902 .