Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

  • SAR PT 663: Directed Research
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: By petition only.
    Research project implemented under the guidance of a faculty supervisor.
  • SAR PT 682: Academic Practicum 1
    The purpose of the Academic Practicum (I & II) experience in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program is to provide students with the opportunity to apply and enhance their knowledge and skill while completing a more in-depth and practical experience in one of four areas of their choosing: service, clinical research or specialty practice/quality improvement. The experience also provides for refinement and development of skills and behaviors in a wide variety of collateral areas not immediately associated with the primary content area. Students will identify an area of interest, contact and collaborate with a mentor to design and begin implementation of a project that will extend over two semesters. The course is a two-semester course that continues through the Fall with the final project to be completed at the end of the Fall semester.
  • SAR PT 690: Independent Study in Physical Therapy
    Work on a special project developed by contract and conducted under supervision of a faculty member.
  • SAR PT 691: Clinical Education Seminar I
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: SAR PT791
    This course is the first in a series of three seminars related to clinical education experiences of students in the Doctoral of Physical Therapy Program. The content is rooted in professional behaviors, ethics, and the core values of accountability, altruism, compassion/ caring, excellence, integrity, professional duty, and social responsibility in the practice of physical therapy. The Institute of Medicine Core Competencies provide a framework for assignments and discussions. The seminars are designed to bridge clinical and classroom experiences using discussion, reflective learning, authentic examples from clinical experiences, case studies, and collaborative learning. This first course/seminar will also provide tools to assist the student with requesting future clinical experiences.
  • SAR PT 692: Clinical Education Seminar II
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: SAR PT791 and PT691
    This course is the second in a series of three seminars related to clinical education experiences. The content is rooted in professional behaviors, ethics, and the core values of accountability, altruism, compassion/ caring, excellence, integrity, professional duty, and social responsibility in the practice of physical therapy. The seminars are designed to bridge clinical and classroom experiences in these areas through the use of discussion, reflective learning, real life examples from clinical experiences, case studies, and collaborative learning. This course will also provide tools to assist the student with choosing and maximizing future clinical experiences.
  • SAR PT 720: Educational Theory & Practice - PT
    This course explores several theories related to identity, learning, motivation and behavior change as they relate to the ability of the physical therapist to interact with an individual seeking care to maximize the individual's outcome. Students will learn how these theories are relevant when developing biopsychosocial and patient centered approach to care. Application of these theories will be emphasized that will allow the student to understand an individual's attitudes and beliefs about their health condition, personal goals, motivation, and outcome expectation and how these each relate to patient outcome. Skills grounded in these theories will be included to help the student form a productive therapeutic alliance, improve the individual's self-efficacy, facilitate adherence to treatment recommendations, and maximize outcome important to the individual.
  • SAR PT 756: Pediatrics
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: Successful completion of all second year DPT coursework. PT students only.
    This course is designed to improve student physical therapists' understanding, exposure, critical evaluation and integration of current best practice towards pediatric physical therapy clinical practice. The readings, class discussions and lectures will focus on increasing students' understanding of typical and atypical development, and how factors affect a child's motor performance across all environments. We will apply theoretical principles of motor control and neurological development to enhance understanding of typical motor development (briefly), as well as motor development in children with various diagnoses.
  • SAR PT 760: Special Topics
    This seminar-based course allows students to explore unique/niche practice areas that are less emphasized in the DPT curriculum, to expand their exposure to practice settings. Relevant topics will be presented by content experts in a case-based format, to foster student engagement in understanding the role of the physical therapist in these practice settings. Topics will vary across practice settings and the lifespan.
  • SAR PT 773: Comprehensive Clinical Reasoning
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: Successful completion of all second year DPT coursework.
    Comprehensive Clinical Reasoning is a case based course taught in small tutorial groups using the problem based learning format. The course is intended to enhance integration of course content taught elsewhere in the curriculum within the context of a physical therapy case study. Students will be expected to use a variety of resources, ( i.e. current literature, text books) to solve complex patient cases. Issues to be discussed will include: evidence-based patient examination, clinical decision making, effective physical therapy intervention, likely prognosis, clinical teaching, the role of the PT in relation to other health care providers, issues involved in the delivery of physical therapy, including professionalism, interpersonal skills, communication, third party payers and ethics.
  • SAR PT 782: Academic Practicum II
    The purpose of the Academic Practicum (I & II) experience in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program is to provide students with the opportunity to apply and enhance their knowledge and skill while completing a more in-depth and practical experience in one of four areas of their choosing: service, clinical research or specialty practice/quality improvement. The experience also provides for refinement and development of skills and behaviors in a wide variety of collateral areas not immediately associated with the primary content area. Students will identify an area of interest, contact and collaborate with a mentor to design and begin implementation of a project that will extend over two semesters. The course is a two-semester course that continues through the Fall with the final project to be completed at the end of the Fall semester.
  • SAR PT 791: Clinical Education Experience 1
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: PT students only.
    This is the first of three full-time clinical experiences in the DPT curriculum. It is designed to focus on the synthesis of knowledge, skills and behaviors learned in the classroom and laboratory, and addressed during the integrated clinical experiences. Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to make sound clinical decisions in the management of non-complex patient problems in a moderately paced environment. Students are supervised in clinical and community settings by qualified physical therapists.
  • SAR PT 792: Clinical Education Experience 2
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: PT students only.
    This is the second of four full-time clinical education experiences in the DPT curriculum. It is designed to focus on the synthesis of knowledge, skills and behaviors learned in the classroom, laboratory and addressed throughout the first 5 semesters of the DPT program. Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to make sound clinical decisions in the management of non-complex patient problems in a moderately paced environment. Students are supervised in clinical and community settings by qualified physical therapists.
  • SAR PT 793: Clinical Education Experience 3
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: PT students only.
    This is the third and fourth of four full-time clinical experiences in the DPT curriculum. It is designed to focus on the synthesis of knowledge, skills and behaviors learned in the classroom, laboratory and addressed throughout the first 6 semesters of the DPT program. Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to make sound clinical decisions in the management of complex patient problems in a moderately paced environment. Students are supervised in clinical and community settings by qualified physical therapists.
  • SAR PT 794: Clinical Education Seminar III
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: SAR PT792
    This course is the final in a series of three seminars related to clinical education experiences of students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. The content is rooted in professional behaviors, ethics, and the core values of accountability, altruism, compassion/ caring, excellence, integrity, professional duty, and social responsibility in the practice of physical therapy. The seminars are designed to bridge clinical and classroom experiences through discussion, reflective/collaborative learning, and real-life examples. Some information covered in previous seminars will be explored again considering additional clinical experience in a different setting. In addition, this course will provide tools to assist the student with the transition to becoming a professional physical therapist including attaining licensure and employment and developing a plan for ongoing professional development.
  • SAR PT 901: Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency
    Post professional program for licensed physical therapists.
  • SAR PT 902: Fellowship in Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy
    Post-professional program for licensed physical therapists.
  • SAR PT 903: Fellowship in Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy 2
    Post-professional program for licensed physical therapists.
  • SAR RS 650: Foundations of Rehabilitation Sciences
    This course provides an overview of the field of rehabilitation science and an introduction to the social constructs of disability with an emphasis on bio-psycho-social-environmental models of the enabling-disabling process across the life course. The historical, philosophical and theoretical foundations of Rehabilitation Science and the evolution of laws and policies related to rehabilitation that inform the ethical, funding, and social implications of rehabilitation research are analyzed. The course will also provide an in-depth understanding of person-environment interactions and the link between biomedical factors and community participation.
  • SAR RS 750: Research Design
    This course serves as an introduction into research designs relevant to rehabilitation science. The first set of sessions provides the background and framework for understanding the reasoning behind different research designs. The remaining sessions focus on various categories of research designs, the types of research questions these designs address, and the types of data analyses that are appropriate to the designs. The course content is integrated with the content students received in Philosophy of Rehabilitation Science. Format of sessions are lecture, discussion, and experiential. Student assignments are individualized to student areas of mentored research. Student presentations are integrated into the topics presented according to the class schedule.
  • SAR RS 790: Teaching Skills
    The role of the researcher as teacher is highly valued but seldom emphasized in graduate education. This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to learn and practice sound teaching and learning principles and mechanics into the teaching of College-level students. Students will be required to present a class four times during the semester. Following presentations, the student will be critiqued by the instructor and by peers. Students will also be given a number of readings around which discussion will take place. Discussion will emphasize how students might incorporate the lessons from their readings into the next presentation. Finally students will be required to develop a detailed course outline and schedule and a sample lesson. Ideally this will be preparation for a class that the student may eventually teach. The primary emphasis will be on teaching of medium to large classes using the lecture method.