University of Tasmania
Master of Occupational Therapy
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 24 months
Acquire the professional knowledge, skills and attributes to become an occupational therapist and support people who experience challenges in living a meaningful life.
Course overview
The Master of Occupational Therapy will prepare you to work with people to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations (activities) they need, want or are expected to perform and to participate in their communities. Adopting a strength-based approach, occupational therapists use various strategies to help those affected by disability, injury, illness or psychological or emotional difficulties participate in meaningful occupations across the lifespan. You will learn to support people to overcome barriers and achieve their goals as a culturally safe and ethical practitioner.
Your studies include how to communicate effectively with clients from all backgrounds and work as part of an interdisciplinary team. You will develop skills in clinical reasoning and reflective, sustainable, evidence-based practice. You will undertake community-based projects and authentic experiential learning activities to enable you to create and apply the occupational therapy process to respond to complex health issues.
This course will ensure you can work with individuals, families and carers, as well as in teams and with other health and interdisciplinary professionals across various settings, including rural and remote areas.
This two-year full-time course is offered via blended learning methods, including independent, online learning with weekly interactive webinars and peer learning. You will attend two week-long Residential Schools in Launceston each semester and engage in work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities throughout the course. While the learning hub for Occupational Therapy is in Launceston, UTas, delivery is designed to be place-based, so you can complete study elements from wherever you reside in Tasmania.
Graduates of the Master of Occupational Therapy will complete the degree equipped with the theoretical and practical competencies required to practice as a registered Occupational Therapist.
CSP Subsidised Fees Available
This program has a limited quota of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP). The indicative CSP price is calculated based on first year fees for EFT. The actual fee may vary if there are choices in electives or majors.
Key facts
What you will study
To complete the Master of Occupational Therapy, students must take the following 16 core units for 200 credit points. Unless otherwise indicated, each unit is valued at 12.5 credit points.
Core units
- Becoming an Allied Health Professional
- Foundations of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science
- Occupational Therapy Practice 1
- Occupational Therapy with Children and Youth
- Occupational Performance, Participation and Wellbeing
- Occupational Therapy Practice 2
- Occupation, Environment and Enablement
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
- Occupational Therapy Practice 3
- Developing as Allied Health Collaborators
- Occupational Therapy and Mental Health
- Occupational Therapy Neuroscience for Rehabilitation and Enablement
- Transitioning to Community-Based Allied Health Practice
- Chronicity, Complexity and Occupational Therapy Service Delivery
- Occupational Therapy Practice 4 (25 credit points)
Entry requirements
To be eligible to apply, you will need to fulfil the following criteria:
- A bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a PhD from an Australian higher education provider.
- Completed the equivalent of the following pre-requisites within the last 10 years:
- At least two units (25 CPU) of relevant systems, human anatomy and physiology.
- One unit (12.5 CPU) of study focused on social perspectives in health, such as psychology or sociology.
- One unit (12.5 CPU) study of research methods; and/or evidence-based practice.
Contact the university or visit their website for more information.
Recognition of Prior Learning
If you’ve already completed some relevant studies, you may be eligible to apply for credit that may count towards the requirements for the degree you are applying for. Contact the university for more information.
Outcomes
Learning outcomes
- Apply core values and principles of occupational therapy to recognise people as occupational beings, maintain a high level of professionalism and make sound legal, ethical and socially responsible decisions in practice.
- Identify and apply key theoretical, conceptual and practice approaches to safe, quality occupational therapy practice.
- Communicate effectively with people, their families, significant others and referrers to meet their occupational needs in a culturally appropriate and collaborative manner.
- Apply evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning to provide occupational therapy for individuals, communities and populations across various current and future practice contexts.
- Demonstrate agility, commitment to ongoing professional development and life-long, self-directed learning and critical reflective practice for working in complex and changing environments.
- Ability to function as leaders and change agents for the occupational therapy profession and actively drive system reform through inquiry, innovation, research literacy and translating research into practice and practice into research.
Career outcomes
As an occupational therapist, you can work with people across the lifespan, in a range of different industries and service models, including:
- Acute care (hospitals)
- Aged care
- Community Health
- Disability
- Early intervention
- Education
- Government
- Health promotion
- Mental health
- Private industry
- Rehabilitation
- Social services
Fees and CSP
Fee information not available.
A student’s annual fee may vary depending on:
- The number of units studied.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of units.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
Commonwealth Supported Places
The Australian Government allocates a certain number of CSPs to the universities each year, which are then distributed to students based on merit.
If you're a Commonwealth Supported Student (CSS), you only need to pay some of your tuition fees. The student contribution amount is the balance once the government subsidy is applied. This means your costs are much lower.
Limited CSP spaces are offered to students enrolled in selected postgraduate courses.
Your student contribution amount is:
- Calculated per unit you're enrolled in.
- Depending on the study areas they relate to.
- Reviewed and adjusted each year.
HECS-HELP loans are available to CSP students to pay the student contribution amount.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee-paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.
