This emphasis contains basic pre-professional preparation for graduate work at institutions with the master’s and doctoral physical therapy or occupational therapy programs required for a career in this field. Completion of a graduate programs leads to licensure in physical therapy or occupational therapy.

Highlights

Career opportunities

Potential career paths include home health care services, nursing care facilities, offices of physicians or related medical fields, and medical or surgical hospitals.

Course listing

Note: Emphasis courses are additional courses that are to be completed alongside the general education and parent program requirements as dictated by the Fresno Pacific University catalog. Please review the course requirements for baccalaureate programs and the general education summary in the Undergraduate Academic Catalog.

Emphasis Courses (16-18 Units)

Select courses with advisor approval from the following list (other courses not listed are possibilities with approval)

Program director

Don Diboll, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Kinesiology

Faculty

Devin Beasley, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology

Amy Brogan, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology

Fay Nielsen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Kinesiology