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USC Chan Archive at the Center for Occupation and Lifestyle Redesign

The USC Chan Archive at the Center for Occupation and Lifestyle Redesign officially opened in 2018 to serve as a repository of textbooks, journals, research manuscripts, photographs, artifacts and ephemera that document the history and trajectory of USC occupational therapy since its 1942 inception.

Located at the Center for Occupation and Lifestyle Redesign® the archive also holds occupational therapy and occupational science graduate student theses and dissertations spanning the program’s 75-year-plus history. A comprehensive collection of historic journals and a small library are likewise housed in the archive’s reading room. Museum cases on the ground floor offer a glimpse of the collection’s highlights.

The archive is available by appointment for research and scholarly projects using the unique primary sources and rare materials collected here. Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  to learn more.

USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9003

ACOTE accreditation | NBCOT certification

The USC entry-level master’s degree program (cost of attendance) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education® (ACOTE®) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The USC entry-level doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD) degree program (cost of attendance) is accredited by ACOTE®. View our program’s ACOTE® standards public data. ACOTE® c/o the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.®, 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 510E, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 652-AOTA, www.acoteonline.org.

Professional program graduates are eligible to apply for the national certification examination administered by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.® (NBCOT®), nbcot.org. All states require licensure to practice; a felony conviction may affect a graduate’s ability to sit for the NBCOT® OTR certification examination or attain state licensure. Program results from the NBCOT® can be found online at www.nbcot.org/Educators-Folder/SchoolPerformance.