Cori Schmitz, MEd, BScOT

Full Teaching Professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Occupational Therapy
Associate Chair, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Occupational Therapy
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Fall Term 2025 (1930)

OCCTH 508 - Social Transformation Through Occupation

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Focusing on occupational therapy in community contexts, students will learn approaches focused on using occupation to transform social inequities and pursue occupational justice. Students will develop capabilities for participatory, action-oriented inquiry and social innovation, addressing community-identified and population-level needs and priorities.

LECTURE 711 (58102)

2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
R 13:00 - 15:50

2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
R 13:00 - 15:50

Winter Term 2026 (1940)

OCCTH 505 - Foundations of Occupation-Focused Practice, Professionalism and Practice Process: II

2 units (fi 4)(EITHER, 2-0-0)

Understand professional responsibilities, ethical approaches, regulation and supervision. Application and evaluation of practice processes and clinical reasoning in the analysis of occupational participation.

LECTURE 711 (86616)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 12:00 - 13:50

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 12:00 - 13:50

LECTURE 741 (86617)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 12:00 - 13:50

LECTURE 771 (86618)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 12:00 - 13:50



OCCTH 507 - Structural Inequality and Human Occupation

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Students will critically analyze structural inequality and human occupation. Students will explore occupational therapy as a political practice that has the potential to reproduce and mitigate oppressive social relations that shape the occupations of everyday life. Students will explore how intersectional oppressions (and related social issues) influence/shape human occupation; question underlying social norms, assumptions and values; and develop practices that affirm human diversity.

LECTURE 711 (86619)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 08:30 - 11:20

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 08:30 - 11:20

LECTURE 741 (86620)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 08:30 - 11:20

LECTURE 771 (86621)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 08:30 - 11:20