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USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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A new team-based challenge puts your knowledge mobilization skills to work! For eight weeks from May-July 2023, gamechanger teams will design new ways of moving academic knowledge into the real world, with three winning teams receiving prize money to continue implementing their game-changing products.

Occupational Science

USC Chan founded the first occupational science (OS) PhD program, Undergraduate Minor and academic department. OS content is woven throughout all of the academic curricula, studied in our interdisciplinary research programs and disseminated through publications and the USC Occupational Science Symposium.

Lifestyle Redesign®

Lifestyle Redesign® is an intervention approach pioneered at USC Chan that continues to be taught in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses, utilized by our occupational therapists at the USC Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice and advanced through our research studies.

Sensory Integration

Sensory integration theory, assessment and intervention were developed at USC Chan by Faculty Emeritus A. Jean Ayres PhD, OTR and continue to be taught today in our academic degree and continuing education programs and furthered through our research studies.

Trojan Family

The Trojan Family is USC’s lifelong worldwide network of esteemed alumni and USC Chan’s alumni total over 3,000 and hail from 48 of the 50 states and more than 60 different countries. Keep up with USC Chan by browsing the latest issue of USC Chan Magazine and joining the Alumni Association.

gamechanger

A new team-based challenge puts your knowledge mobilization skills to work! For eight weeks from May-July 2023, gamechanger teams will design new ways of moving academic knowledge into the real world, with three winning teams receiving prize money to continue implementing their game-changing products.

Occupational Science

USC Chan founded the first occupational science (OS) PhD program, Undergraduate Minor and academic department. OS content is woven throughout all of the academic curricula, studied in our interdisciplinary research programs and disseminated through publications and the USC Occupational Science Symposium.

Lifestyle Redesign®

Lifestyle Redesign® is an intervention approach pioneered at USC Chan that continues to be taught in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses, utilized by our occupational therapists at the USC Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice and advanced through our research studies.

Sensory Integration

Sensory integration theory, assessment and intervention were developed at USC Chan by Faculty Emeritus A. Jean Ayres PhD, OTR and continue to be taught today in our academic degree and continuing education programs and furthered through our research studies.

Trojan Family

The Trojan Family is USC’s lifelong worldwide network of esteemed alumni and USC Chan’s alumni total over 3,000 and hail from 48 of the 50 states and more than 60 different countries. Keep up with USC Chan by browsing the latest issue of USC Chan Magazine and joining the Alumni Association.

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Research Expertise

Our faculty have $22.5M in active, federally funded research projects.

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Latest News

Growing by design >

April 21, 2023

When designing the USC Peace Garden, student landscape architect Daniela Velazco prioritized people and planting.

Anne Henderson BS ’46, 98 >

April 20, 2023

Henderson was an alumna of the Class of 1946 and the recipient of the 1988 American Occupational Therapy Association's Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award.

Erna Blanche to keynote division’s 2023 commencement >

April 10, 2023

USC alumna and current faculty member is a renowned expert in pediatric occupational therapy and therapeutic interventions based on occupational science.

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Student Blog

Mika

A Tribute to Open Mic BBQs, Swiftie Listening Parties, & Mid-Class G.I. Snack Runs >

May 1, 2023
by Mika

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog and I can’t believe it’s my last one! Bittersweet as it is, I want to dedicate this post to my classmates in the Post-Professional…

The Pre-OT Club Gets Crafty >

April 3, 2023
by The Pre-OT Club

Hello world! Taylor Kamemoto My name is Taylor Kamemoto. I am a current pre-OT student and a senior at USC majoring in Psychology and the Health & Human Sciences. I also have minors in Occupational…

Upcoming Events

USC Chan Magazine

USC Chan Magazine, Fall 2022 / Winter 2023

Fall 2022 / Winter 2023 >

Daily Affirmations >
Occupational therapist Nora Dixon leads new Lifestyle Redesign® program for supporting transgender and gender expansive clients.

Doing Decolonization >
Faculty members Tessa Milman, Janet Gunter and Jennifer Jones in conversation with USC Chan Magazine editor Mike McNulty about dismantling occupational therapy’s colonial ideologies and practices.

USC OT/PT Summer Institute is Diversifying Tomorrow’s Workforce Today >
How a six-week undergraduate pathway program empowers future occupational, physical therapists from underrepresented minority backgrounds.

View/download the Fall 2022 / Winter 2023 issue (2.2MB)

USC Chan Magazine, Spring / Summer 2021

Spring / Summer 2021 >

How a student project led to autism training at USC’s Department of Public Safety >
USC Chan students Monica Caris MA ’21, OTD ’22 and Riley McGuire MA ’21, OTD ’22 just wanted to educate people about autism, but already their capstone project has become part of yearly officer training.

Let There Be Peace >
How my pandemic fieldwork experience made me an occupational and social justice practitioner.

Madam Veep >
In July, Director of Admissions and Associate Clinical Professor Arameh Anvarizadeh ’05, MA ’06, OTD ’07 made history as the youngest and first African American-Iranian woman to become vice president of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She recently sat down with the USC Chan Magazine to talk about her action-packed agenda as Vice President, her hopes for the association and where she sees the next generation taking occupational therapy.

View/download the Spring / Summer 2021 issue (5.4MB)