HLSC 4492U – Athletic Therapy Internship I

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with practical experience in the athletic therapy field. Students will be provided with advanced first aid and athletic therapy training before being placed with a varsity team as a student therapist. Students must do a double semester placement for this choice (6 credits). Students will complete a minimum 135 hours per semester in their placement position and be required to write a comprehensive report on the kinesiology knowledge that they utilized from their undergraduate courses in contributing to the internship placement, as well as how the placement helped them to integrate that knowledge for their own learning.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): HLSC 3020U, HLSC 3472U, HLSC 3481U, and permission of the course instructor
Corequisite(s): HLSC 4482U
Credit restriction(s): HLSC 4494U
Note(s): Students continue in HLSC 4493U and will not receive a grade for HLSC 4492U until the subsequent course is complete. Students may only enrol in one Internship course in each semester.